Jim> Do you have /linuxrc in an initial ramdisk? No, it is in the msdos filesystem which the kernel is mounting. The kernel says: VFS: Mounted root (msdos filesystem). Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 240k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Of course, I *am* passing "init=/linuxrc" to the kernel. The linuxrc program is in the root directory of the msdos filesystem that VFS is mounting. Dave >> I would like my kernel to read a ramdisk file off of an msdos >> partition. I think the way to do this is to put the following on an >> msdos partition: >> >> 1. vmlinux (linux kernel) >> 2. /dev directory (to mount devfs on) >> 3. ramdisk.img (the >> 4. linuxrc program (see below) >> >> My bootloader finds vmlinux on the dos partition and boots it. >> The linuxrc program loads the ramdisk and does a pivot root. >> >> I think the above will work. I have two questions: >> >> 1. is there an easier way? >> 2. my kernel is not finding linuxrc. Here are the arguments I'm using: >> go vmlinux devfs=only root=301 rw init=/linuxrc >> Is there some special path syntax I need for the init=<path>? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
