Re: [Qemu-devel] Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Trypassing init= option to kernel.

["Christian MICHON" <christian.michon@gmail.com>]

On 10/19/07, Kjel Delaey <kjel_delaey@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I came home and I tried the stuff at my desktop (I was in school in the
> morning).
>
>  I followed your steps Christian and I have also downloaded the
> detaolb_v06.iso file. I have also changed the line in .config.
> I have extracted "debug" in my working directory.
>  If I use "debug" I have the following message:
>  /bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off.
>
>  By the way, thank you all for helping me out :)
>
> I'm trying since 8.30 am. It must work ;)
>  (init problem/solved!)
> qemu -m 32 -hda rootfs.img -kernel linux-2.6.18.1/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> -append "root=/dev/hda \clock=pit"
>  (tty problem)
> qemu -m 32 -hda rootfs.img -kernel linux-2.6.18.1/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> -initrd debug -append "root=/dev/hda \clock=pit"
>
>  Turning off tty in busybox isn't a working solution.
>
> I couldn't send an email earlier because I had problems with Hotmail.
>

it's normal. "debug" is where the first process is actually a shell.
you need to boot on an initramfs that contains proper runlevel 3 and
login utils.

Please download detaolb_v01.iso and extract "initrmfs.v01".
This should do!

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Christian
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