Ahoy, Mukund !
Are you on-line ? I am back to build a distro.
I did every-thing as per yr instructions. BUT SORRY,
NO LUCK.
The only confusion to me is abt step no. 7, where you
told to:
>7. copy from /dev/hda*, /dev/zero, /dev/null and
/dev/console
>to /mnt/tmp/dev
Should I copy /dev/hda4 device file also to
/mnt/tmp/dev ?
Any how, I tried it. But the whole partition ( hda4 in
my
case : 278MB primary, ext2) I have created, consumed
all the
space. At least "df" shows "100% used" ( I deleted
hda4 then).
But still I tried loadlin as per yr instr.
Then I deleted the /dev/hda4 from the new partition,
and
again tried, still NO-NO !
Then I copied the stock kernel of Debian from CD to /
of
this new partition & again tried, but the dumbo
refused to
boot.
Then I copied /sbin/init file of my original Debian
box(hda6,
600MB, ext2 with every-thing imp and working nicely )
to hda4's
/ dire. But NO LUCK !
( Sorry for my "Non-knowledge" abt linux, that's why I
tried
above "un-told" steps also. )
The only message, with all above options I am getting
is, :
"Kernel panic. No init found. Try passing init option
to kernel"
Remember I am using "loadlin" on my original Debian &
RH boxes
successfully.
What is wrong, dear ?
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Kindly guide ! Regards ! ~Pats ( alias
~newlxuser )
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>Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:13:27 +0530
>From: "mukund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>And what are these "certain files" ? Although I
am not
>>going to build my own distro immideately, still I
would
>>like to know the info to fill-in-the-gaps of my
linux
>>knowledge. What man page should I consult for
these
>>"certain files" ?
>You can try this for a starter, I did it once.
>1. Boot to any distro.
>2. make a fresh partition on hard disk of 10 mb or
so.
>(At your risk)
>3. make ext2 file system with mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda*
>4. Mount the partition with mount /dev/hda*
/mnt/tmp
>5. make bin, lib, and dev, directory.
>6. copy /bin/bash and /bin/ls to /mnt/tmp/bin/
>7. copy from /dev/hda*, /dev/zero, /dev/null and
/dev/console
>to /mnt/tmp/dev
>8. get the list of libs with ldd /bin/bash and
/bin/ls (should
>be libc6,ld.so, ... )
>9. Copy these to /mnt/tmp/lib
>10. unmount the /mnt/tmp.
>OK, your distro ready to boot. Now you need a good
kernel and
>loadlin(you can use LILO, Again at you risk).
>1. make a bootable dos floppy on dos system.
>2. copy loadlin and the kernel (take the stock
kernel from
>debian {preferred} or RH cd) to floppy.
>3. Reboot with this floppy and at dos prompt type
>loadlin vmlinuz init=/bin/bash root=/dev/hd*.
>Put name of kernel in place of vmlinuz and
partition in place
> of /hd*.
>The system should load and you should get a nice
little prompt
> bash#.
>You can do nothing except ls.
>This is the beginning and you can populate the
system and do
>some scripting
>to make it workable.
>You can pass a script name to init= at boot time
other wise
>default is /sbin/init
>I did this long back, and just let me know if does
not work.
>>Hmm ! Will have to do some homework before
>>proceding...
>>I know you have done something like this long
back.
>>Both of my
>>linux boxes are presently under production work.
Will
>>have to give
>>a try only after 22nd Jan.
>>But I will definately let you know , when I get
>>started.
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