Greg Pratt wrote:
>
> Things are looking much better now, but I'm still
> having a problem. At boot, I get the following output:
>
> <snip>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed
> NFTL_request
> NFTL Read request, from sector 0x01c8 for 0x0002
> sectors
> Waiting for mutex
> Got mutex
> NFTL read request of 0x2 sectors @ 1c9
> (req->nr_sectors ==2)
> NFTL read request completed OK
> end_request(1)
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option
> to kernel.
> </snip>
>
> I suspect I have done something wrong with my initrd,
> but the initrd image was made from /dev/hda2 which
> worked fine when I passed root=/dev/hda2 to the
> kernel.
>
> I used the lem (Linux Embedded) tar of their
> filesystem on /dev/hda2. I did create the /dev/console
> device as c 5 2 and the /linuxrc as a symlink to
> /bin/busybox.
>
> Any pointers at this point would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
What is your root filesystem ?? The kernel panic is due to NO root filesystem.
Can you try to use /dev/hda1 or /dev/nftla1 as root filesystem first rather
than hacking initrd ??
Ollie
