Re: Question on Storing initrd on DoC

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Greg Pratt wrote:

> <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>

you don't want an initrd in there. You want to put directories and files
in there. nftla1 is root. So you need to
mount /dev/nftla1 /flash
(example)
tar cf - /sbin | (cd /flash; tar xf -)

and so on. i.e. populate the mounted /flash with files.

ron