On 23 Sep 2001, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> No this does not seem te be the problem. I use the NT loader to load
> LILO, so I edited lilo.conf, ran lilo and then used dd to copy /dev/hda5
> to /mnt/windows/bootsect.lnx, which always worked succesfully before.
>
> In fact the kernel itself boots OK, the error message comes when
> SysVinit should start:
> Mounting /proc filesystem
> Creating root device
> Mounting root filesystem
> pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
> Remounting devfs at coorect place if necessary
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 712k freed
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
Yes, I had this problem too, even my machine only has a single Mandrake.
Tried to upgrade to kernel-2.4.8-2?mdk, all attempts to all kernel versions
are failure. Here are the relevant software versions (IMHO):
mkinitrd-3.1.6-7mdk
kernel-2.4.7-7mdk
initscripts-6.17-2mdk
util-linux-2.11h-3mdk
Abel
