On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 14:21, 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. Is your linuxrc an ELF executable or a script? If elf, and not statically linked, do you have any needed libs in your dos fs and in the correct location? If a script, do you have the interperter and any libs it might need? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/