Re: Booting off msdos, AND using initrd?

[Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>]

David Wuertele wrote:
> 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
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