On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:57:10PM -0400, Seneca wrote: | I am trying to get UML from unstable to work on my system, but the | kernel always panics during boot. I managed to get past the first panic | by setting "root=/home/seneca" or "root=/tmp", but now I get: | | Warning: unable to open an initial console | Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. | | I have tried passing different init values to the kernel, but each time, | I get the same panic of "No init found", or the kernel freezes.
Your "root=" parameter is wrong, which is why /sbin/init can't be found. | unable to open /tmp for validation | cramfs: wrong magic | read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 62:00, block 16, size 4096) | read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 62:00, block 2, size 4096) Here's where it's telling you it had problems mounting the root filesystem (because the root= parameter is wrong). | VFS: Mounted root (root-hostfs filesystem) readonly. | Warning: unable to open an initial console. | Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. And this is the result of it. I had that same error message on a new machine a while back. The problem was a typo in my bootloader config. "boot=" doesn't not mean "root=" :-). The root= parameter must refer to the device file that refers to the partition on disk where your root filesystem is located. HTH, -D -- All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the Lord. Proverbs 16:2 GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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