From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Collins Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:21:39 +0000 Subject: Re: initrd problems?? Message-Id: <20040702122139.GB3320@phunnypharm.org> List-Id: References: <20040701194809.3e060eb0.tvaroqua@ie2.u-psud.fr> In-Reply-To: <20040701194809.3e060eb0.tvaroqua@ie2.u-psud.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org > I'm confused: isn't the standard init for an initrd /linuxrc? > How do I pass options to the kernel with tilo? > How come busybox is called when there isn't even an init link?? > My kernel is the one from the Debian boot cd (I don't have the time to > compile a new one until I get this problem solved). Read Documentation/initrd.txt in the kernel sources. It gives a lot of details about how initrd (and especially use of /linuxrc) is supposed to work, and what the kernel expects. You could just try doing init=/bin/bash and see if that works. (boot net linux init=/bin/bash) -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/