Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:08:23 -0700 | From | rread@datarith ... |
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Is there anything besides /linux in the root? Sounds like init is dynamic and needs the linker and libc. Make sure init is static.
robert
* Paul Powell (moloch16@yahoo.com) [001013 17:18]: > Hello, > > I am attempting to move all of the root files and > folders into a single directory /linux on the root > file system. I then use the kernel parameter > init=/linux/sbin/init to get things rolling but the > kernel panics. > > When I boot linux, everything seems to work ok until > the kernel tries to execute init. The root device is > mounted as the root file system successfully and I see > a message stating so. But then I get a kernel panic > which says it couldn't find init and to try using the > init= kernel parameter. > > I'm guessing there is something missing from the root > directory that the kernel needs but isn't there. I > tried moving the /dev directory back to the root > directory on the root file system but this didn't help > things. > > Anyone have any clues? > > Thanks. > > P.S. The reason I'm doing this is because I'm > creating a bootable CD but have other things on the CD > in addition to linux. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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