Re: initial console

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote:

Hi,

I have the following message at boot :

Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k init 12k pmac 4k chrp 4k openfirmware
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
Rebooting in 180 seconds..

if I give this argument init=/sbin/init it's the same.

I know it sounds dumb, but have you ensured that you've got the root partition
set correctly?  I've seen these errors before when I had a root partition
specified that didn't contain /dev or /sbin/init.

Perhaps add root=/dev/<whatever it is for you> as another arguemnt.

Chris

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