re. Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

2009-04-21 Thread Robert A. Lerche
You write that the kernel has successfully mounted the root file system. Are you sure? This kind of crash is often due to a failure to mount /. How is the CF card connected physically? You also write you have no initramfs. I suggest you create one -- then if initialization cannot mount root

LFS 6.4 Lives!

2009-04-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Well, JHALFS took some work (see my earlier report) and it took me four times configuring and building the kernel to get one which would recognize all the disc drives, but LFS 6.4 now successfully boots and runs, and I can mount each of my CD-ROM drives. Mike --