From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA121350 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 13:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id NAA29788 for linux-list; Wed, 13 May 1998 13:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA52786 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 13:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.1]) by sgi.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id NAA09928 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 13:37:38 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ralf@uni-koblenz.de) From: ralf@uni-koblenz.de Received: from uni-koblenz.de (ralf@pmport-05.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.249.5]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA14718 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 22:37:32 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from ralf@localhost) by uni-koblenz.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA00682; Wed, 13 May 1998 22:37:25 +0200 Message-ID: <19980513223725.33155@uni-koblenz.de> Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 22:37:25 +0200 To: "Francis M. J. Hsieh" Cc: Alex deVries , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Installer changes... References: <3.0.3.32.19980514032548.00730fa8@140.114.98.21> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980514032548.00730fa8@140.114.98.21>; from Francis M. J. Hsieh on Thu, May 14, 1998 at 03:25:48AM +0800 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 03:25:48AM +0800, Francis M. J. Hsieh wrote: > [deleted] > sgiseeq.c: David S. Miller (dm@engr.sgi.com) > eth0: SGI Seeq8003 blah:blah:blah:blah > Partition check > blah.... > blah.... > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k freed > Warning: unable to open an initial console. > kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= optional to kernel. > [halt] Alex already said it, try adding init=/bin/sh to the boot options. > And I use the kernel in GetingStarted directory, and got panic, too. > ("should not happened yet") That was a real bug. The kernel in GettinStarted in truely ancient. I replaced it by vmlinux-2.1.99. Ralf