It occurs right when one should be about to get ready to log in. "Cannot open initial console" comes just before the kernel panic message about no init found. ~Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "'Georgina'" <gena@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 9:36 PM Subject: Re: Kernel panic: no init found. try passing init to kernel | Hi | | Well I can't give you exact instruction as I don't know what is required | for the modem. If you've been reading you should know what it requires. | I guess that you need parameters passing to the kernel. Such as port | and irq, although, I would have thought that it was a plug n play | device. But if it does need parameters passing to the kernel, you just | append them to the loadlin line of your batchfile. | | A quick search on google is likely to provide you with step by step | instruction. | | That's assuming that it is down to the modem, as you haven't stated | exactly when this occurs. It may be that something else has been | changed. | | | Gena | | | | Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org | | >I know ... what a subject line. LOL! | > | >Gregory, I know you're working hard on this, but thought I'd query the list | >to see if anyone had any suggestions for either of us. To make a long story | >short, folks, Gregory Nowak has been working his fingers to the bone for the | >last several days, trying to help me get my modem working under zipspeak8.0. | >We've discovered a bug in Zipspeak which I believe the maintainer has been | >made aware of, and doesn't really concern this problem. anyhow, he's | >compiled a kernel for me, and it does seem to detect my modem while booting, | >but at the end, I get the message stated in the subject of this e-mail. | > | >Is there a way to pass an init command to the kernel using the linux.bat | >file? How is it done ... and I mean *exactly* how, LOL! As in "you type the | >following *here*" LOL! | > | >Anyway, folks, if any of you have any ideas, Gregory and I would appreciate | >it. He seems, in theory, to have possibly solved my m modem problem for me. | >Although, since I can't log in, I can't say for sure that he has. | > | >In short .... HELP PLEASE???? <smile> | > | >Forgetting why she wanted to try Linux to begin with LOL, | >~Ann | > | > | >_______________________________________________ | >Speakup mailing list | >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca | >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup | | _______________________________________________ | Speakup mailing list | Speakup at braille.uwo.ca | http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup |
