Init problems

[steve@portal-films.com]

I am new to linux so please be gentle. ;)

I am trying to run Elks on an old sharp laptop i just aquired
it has an 8088 processor (a wapping 7 MHZ)
a 720k floppy drive
and 256k of ram

I have tried useing every root image i can fing and i get the same error on boot once it is inserted at the prompt

The error i get is

Loading Init
sys_execve("/bin/init",args,10) => 65524.
No Init - running /bin/sh

Panic: No Init or Sh Found
apparent call stack:

(0) ret addr = 164 params = 0 0 0 0 0 0
(1) ret addr = 0 params = 2FC A4 4000 2D86 E784 92
(2) ret addr = 92 params = 0 0 0 0 0 0 
(3) ret addr = 0 params = 0 0 0 0 0 0 
(4) ret addr = 0 params = 0 0 0 0 0 0
(5) ret addr = 0 params = 0 0 0 0 0 0
(6) ret addr = 0 params = 0 0 0 0 0 0
(7) ret addr = 0 params = 0 0 0 0 0 0
 
Please can you help me figure out how to get this working.

thanks

Steve
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