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Re: Booting off msdos, AND using initrd?

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 14:21, David Wuertele wrote:
> Jim> Do you have /linuxrc in an initial ramdisk?
> 
> No, it is in the msdos filesystem which the kernel is mounting.
> The kernel says:
> 
>   VFS: Mounted root (msdos filesystem).
>   Mounted devfs on /dev
>   Freeing unused kernel memory: 240k freed
>   Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
> 
> Of course, I *am* passing "init=/linuxrc" to the kernel.  The linuxrc
> program is in the root directory of the msdos filesystem that VFS is
> mounting.

Is your linuxrc an ELF executable or a script?  If elf, and not
statically linked, do you have any needed libs in your dos fs and
in the correct location?  If a script, do you have the interperter
and any libs it might need?
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