On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 03:25:48AM +0800, Francis M. J. Hsieh wrote:

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sgiseeq.c: David S. Miller (dm@engr.sgi.com)
eth0: SGI Seeq8003 blah:blah:blah:blah
Partition check
   blah....
   blah....
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= optional to kernel.
[halt]

Alex already said it, try adding init=/bin/sh to the boot options.

And I use the kernel in GetingStarted directory, and got panic, too.
("should not happened yet")

That was a real bug.  The kernel in GettinStarted in truely ancient.  I
replaced it by vmlinux-2.1.99.

  Ralf