On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Steven Pierce wrote:
>
>
> I have tried to boot with the recovery floppy and it is giving me a
> lot of information:
>
> First it is telling me that Insert ROOT floppy disk that is to be
> loaded into RAM.
>
> Loading 1440 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk ...... DONE
> VFS Mounted Root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
> change_root: old root has d_count=1
> trying to unmount old root...Okay
> Freeing unused kernel memory : 64K freed
> Warning unable to open an intinial console
> Kernel panic... no init found. Try passing init = option to kernel.
>
> After that all I get is a blinking cursor. It does not do anything at
> this point. Am I totally up a creek without a pattel or can it be
> recovered?
>
> I still have the inforamtion on the screen so if someone needs more
> info let me know. I will tell you what it tells me on the screen..
> This is now become an emergency. I have a Linux package that I need
> to be running for Monday.
>
> HELP
>
Your root floppy is bad. It is not finding the software it should on the
root file system floppy. It is not to the point where it is trying to
read the hard drive yet. Are you sure you were using the correct root
floppy?
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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