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Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] 2.4.18-pa29 problem
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> We also discovered that adding a init=/bin/sh param to the linux kernel 
> did the trick and let the machine boot.
> 
> We suspect an INIT problem.
> 
> Hope this might help.
> 

When we did LTSP for sparc it was based it off the woody binaries, we
had the same problem and yes could also do init=/bin/bash. We ended up
using init from slackware resulting in a slightly bastardised but
working distribution.

Robert Stanford