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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On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Chris Leishman wrote:

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.

/dev/sda5 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda2 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sda6 on /home type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sda7 on /export/data1 type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /export/data2 type ext2 (rw)

And I give the following argument root=/dev/sda5
with the 2.4.0 kernel it fails but with a 2.2.17 kernel it works.

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