From: Chris Leishman <masklin@debian.org>
To: Xavier Grave <grave@ipno.in2p3.fr>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: initial console
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 02:16:53 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001019021653.A383@nina.dev.fol> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010181110280.24224-100000@ipnpcu5>; from grave@ipno.in2p3.fr on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:25:48AM +0200
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have the following message at boot :
>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k init 12k pmac 4k chrp 4k openfirmware
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
> Rebooting in 180 seconds..
>
> if I give this argument init=/sbin/init it's the same.
>
I know it sounds dumb, but have you ensured that you've got the root partition
set correctly? I've seen these errors before when I had a root partition
specified that didn't contain /dev or /sbin/init.
Perhaps add root=/dev/<whatever it is for you> as another arguemnt.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-18 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-18 9:25 initial console Xavier Grave
2000-10-18 10:20 ` Gabriel Paubert
2000-10-18 11:46 ` Xavier Grave
2000-10-18 11:53 ` Gabriel Paubert
2000-10-18 11:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-10-19 7:22 ` Xavier Grave
2000-10-19 13:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-10-18 15:16 ` Chris Leishman [this message]
2000-10-18 15:24 ` Xavier Grave
[not found] <39EDC604.A6776B85@muenchen.europe.mcd.mot.com>
2000-10-18 19:58 ` Alois Fertl
2000-10-19 12:16 ` Xavier Grave
2000-10-20 1:19 ` Matt Porter
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