Hi Jude I have never seen this error before. I would suspect however that you forgot to compile "console on virtual terminal" or "enable virtual terminals". Just a shot in the dark. I don't know why you would have this problem otherwise. Frank On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Jude T. DaShiell wrote: > I got a new kernel panic, the warning was no initial console found and the > panic said try passing init= option to kernel. Any ideas on how to get a > good value for init= and does that properly go on the loadlin command > line? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >