Re: Kernel panic: No init found.
"diana" == diana tanase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: diana> Hi, I've been trying to install Debian (kernel version diana> 2.20) on Sony Vaio PCG-GT1. Since I don't have a working diana> CD-ROM I went ahead and created a floppy image (I'm not >> Warning: unable to open an initial console. Kernel panic: No >> init found. Try passing init=option to kernel I'm not familiar with the PCG-GT1 but if it has a USB floppy drive the Woody boot disks just will not work out. I've read reports on using custom floppy disks. Google away. See, for example, http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200205/msg00230.html Basically, you need a bf24 boot disk that includes the correct USB drivers. Unfortunately I've never actually tried this (I have a N505VE with a Sony PCMCIA CD-ROM). Cheers! Shyamal
Re: Kernel panic: No init found.
* diana tanase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003 Mar 23 20:22 -0600]: > Hi, > I've been trying to install Debian (kernel version 2.20) on Sony Vaio > PCG-GT1. Since I don't have a working CD-ROM I went ahead and created a > floppy image (I'm not really sure I'm using the right images but this is > another story). After inserting the rescue.bin disk it mounts the ext2 > partition and asks me to insert the root.bin disk, and after hitting > enter I get ... > >Warning: unable to open an initial console. > >Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel Hi Diana. I'm guessing you also need to make a floppy image of the root.bin file, located in the same directory as rescue.bin. I say this since I don't see a specific mention of creating the second diskette and then swapping disks. The other possibility is that the second diskette is corrupted. I've performed several floppy disk installs and usually have one or two diskettes fail. > Could anyone give me a hint about what should I do. I tried to set the > init option but since I'm a newbie to Linux I must have been doing it > wrong. In addition to the rescue.bin and root.bin floppies, you will need to make the driver and base diskettes as well. The Debian 3.0 release requires 20 (or 22, I forget) disks for all of this. Older Debian versions require less. After feeding all the floppies to the installer you can then set up your modem or network (it's rather easy to miss the PCMCIA setup) and do a network install which works very well. Don't worry about making a few mistakes. I think it took me three times to install Debian the way I liked it the first time through. Rather than mistakes consider them a learning opportunity! - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | "We have awakened a Internet | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | sleeping giant and Location | Bremen, Kansas USA EM19ov | have instilled in him Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | a terrible resolve". http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | - Admiral Yamamoto
Re: Kernel panic: No init found.
"diana" == diana tanase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: diana> Hi, I've been trying to install Debian (kernel version diana> 2.20) on Sony Vaio PCG-GT1. Since I don't have a working diana> CD-ROM I went ahead and created a floppy image (I'm not >> Warning: unable to open an initial console. Kernel panic: No >> init found. Try passing init=option to kernel I'm not familiar with the PCG-GT1 but if it has a USB floppy drive the Woody boot disks just will not work out. I've read reports on using custom floppy disks. Google away. See, for example, http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200205/msg00230.html Basically, you need a bf24 boot disk that includes the correct USB drivers. Unfortunately I've never actually tried this (I have a N505VE with a Sony PCMCIA CD-ROM). Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel panic: No init found.
* diana tanase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003 Mar 23 20:22 -0600]: > Hi, > I've been trying to install Debian (kernel version 2.20) on Sony Vaio > PCG-GT1. Since I don't have a working CD-ROM I went ahead and created a > floppy image (I'm not really sure I'm using the right images but this is > another story). After inserting the rescue.bin disk it mounts the ext2 > partition and asks me to insert the root.bin disk, and after hitting > enter I get ... > >Warning: unable to open an initial console. > >Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel Hi Diana. I'm guessing you also need to make a floppy image of the root.bin file, located in the same directory as rescue.bin. I say this since I don't see a specific mention of creating the second diskette and then swapping disks. The other possibility is that the second diskette is corrupted. I've performed several floppy disk installs and usually have one or two diskettes fail. > Could anyone give me a hint about what should I do. I tried to set the > init option but since I'm a newbie to Linux I must have been doing it > wrong. In addition to the rescue.bin and root.bin floppies, you will need to make the driver and base diskettes as well. The Debian 3.0 release requires 20 (or 22, I forget) disks for all of this. Older Debian versions require less. After feeding all the floppies to the installer you can then set up your modem or network (it's rather easy to miss the PCMCIA setup) and do a network install which works very well. Don't worry about making a few mistakes. I think it took me three times to install Debian the way I liked it the first time through. Rather than mistakes consider them a learning opportunity! - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | "We have awakened a Internet | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | sleeping giant and Location | Bremen, Kansas USA EM19ov | have instilled in him Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | a terrible resolve". http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | - Admiral Yamamoto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel panic. No init found
Hi Peter, Thank you for your answer. Am Samedi 14 Avril 2001 21:26 schrieb Peter Cordes: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:17:03PM +0200, Vincent Laisney wrote: > > Hi debs! > > > > I have installed Debian Potato 2.2.19pre9 on my laptop. Everything was > > well, but I had no APM support. I have tried to recompile the Kernel with > > > > make menuconfig > > make-kpkg kernel_image > > dpkg -i ../.deb > > > > But wenn I have rebooted I have got a message > > "Kernel panic no init found. You can give at boot the option init= ..." > > What does it say before this? Here are the messages: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 # it is correct. my root is hda6 apm VFS. Mounted Root (ext2 filesystem) readonly # is the readonly the problem? Freeing unused Kernel memory: 72k freed Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option the kernel. > > > The worst is that I get this message for my old (and correct) Kernel, > > wenn I boot with on the vmlinuz.old > > > > Yes, I have read in the Archives of this List that the solution is to add > > apm=on on the boot line or add the line append "apm=on" in lilo.conf. > > It's a pity to read this too late... > > lilo append lines are equivalent to putting the command line options in > yourself. Just boot linux apm=on if you want. > > > Can somebody help me and give me the data to put after "init=" ? > > Why can I not boot from my old kernel? > > Most likely the problem is the it's getting the wrong root directory. > specify root= whatever it should be. I have tried with root=/dev/hda6 and it doesnt cure the problem > It's not too likely the /sbin/init > disappeared, unless something really bad happened. init=/bin/bash is > another thing that can work, but no init= line will help until the kernel > find the correct root filesystem. I have controlled. My /sbin/init is there. Thank you very much for any suggestion. I am working booting now with the rescue disk and the root=/dev/hda6 option and it works fine. Vincent Laisney
Re: Kernel panic. No init found
Hi Peter, Thank you for your answer. Am Samedi 14 Avril 2001 21:26 schrieb Peter Cordes: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:17:03PM +0200, Vincent Laisney wrote: > > Hi debs! > > > > I have installed Debian Potato 2.2.19pre9 on my laptop. Everything was > > well, but I had no APM support. I have tried to recompile the Kernel with > > > > make menuconfig > > make-kpkg kernel_image > > dpkg -i ../.deb > > > > But wenn I have rebooted I have got a message > > "Kernel panic no init found. You can give at boot the option init= ..." > > What does it say before this? Here are the messages: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 # it is correct. my root is hda6 apm VFS. Mounted Root (ext2 filesystem) readonly # is the readonly the problem? Freeing unused Kernel memory: 72k freed Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option the kernel. > > > The worst is that I get this message for my old (and correct) Kernel, > > wenn I boot with on the vmlinuz.old > > > > Yes, I have read in the Archives of this List that the solution is to add > > apm=on on the boot line or add the line append "apm=on" in lilo.conf. > > It's a pity to read this too late... > > lilo append lines are equivalent to putting the command line options in > yourself. Just boot linux apm=on if you want. > > > Can somebody help me and give me the data to put after "init=" ? > > Why can I not boot from my old kernel? > > Most likely the problem is the it's getting the wrong root directory. > specify root= whatever it should be. I have tried with root=/dev/hda6 and it doesnt cure the problem > It's not too likely the /sbin/init > disappeared, unless something really bad happened. init=/bin/bash is > another thing that can work, but no init= line will help until the kernel > find the correct root filesystem. I have controlled. My /sbin/init is there. Thank you very much for any suggestion. I am working booting now with the rescue disk and the root=/dev/hda6 option and it works fine. Vincent Laisney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel panic. No init found
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:17:03PM +0200, Vincent Laisney wrote: > Hi debs! > > I have installed Debian Potato 2.2.19pre9 on my laptop. Everything was well, > but I had no APM support. I have tried to recompile the Kernel with > > make menuconfig > make-kpkg kernel_image > dpkg -i ../.deb > > But wenn I have rebooted I have got a message > "Kernel panic no init found. You can give at boot the option init= ..." What does it say before this? > > The worst is that I get this message for my old (and correct) Kernel, wenn I > boot with on the vmlinuz.old > > Yes, I have read in the Archives of this List that the solution is to add > apm=on on the boot line or add the line append "apm=on" in lilo.conf. It's a > pity to read this too late... lilo append lines are equivalent to putting the command line options in yourself. Just boot linux apm=on if you want. > Can somebody help me and give me the data to put after "init=" ? > Why can I not boot from my old kernel? Most likely the problem is the it's getting the wrong root directory. specify root= whatever it should be. It's not too likely the /sbin/init disappeared, unless something really bad happened. init=/bin/bash is another thing that can work, but no init= line will help until the kernel find the correct root filesystem. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
Re: Kernel panic. No init found
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:17:03PM +0200, Vincent Laisney wrote: > Hi debs! > > I have installed Debian Potato 2.2.19pre9 on my laptop. Everything was well, > but I had no APM support. I have tried to recompile the Kernel with > > make menuconfig > make-kpkg kernel_image > dpkg -i ../.deb > > But wenn I have rebooted I have got a message > "Kernel panic no init found. You can give at boot the option init= ..." What does it say before this? > > The worst is that I get this message for my old (and correct) Kernel, wenn I > boot with on the vmlinuz.old > > Yes, I have read in the Archives of this List that the solution is to add > apm=on on the boot line or add the line append "apm=on" in lilo.conf. It's a > pity to read this too late... lilo append lines are equivalent to putting the command line options in yourself. Just boot linux apm=on if you want. > Can somebody help me and give me the data to put after "init=" ? > Why can I not boot from my old kernel? Most likely the problem is the it's getting the wrong root directory. specify root= whatever it should be. It's not too likely the /sbin/init disappeared, unless something really bad happened. init=/bin/bash is another thing that can work, but no init= line will help until the kernel find the correct root filesystem. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
