When booting a newly built kernel, it now stops with the following message:
Warning: unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
I suspect this is because my method of building the ram disk did not include "/linuxrc". The command I used to do that was:
mkinitrd --image-version initrd 2.4.20-20.9smp
The "Document/initrd.txt" describes a complex method of generating the initrd, mentioning that you must add the modules you need (whatever they happen to be?) and "most importantly" "/linuxrc" which "find / -name linuxrc" can not find, and "man -k linuxrc" comes up with only one vague relevance.
The man pages on "mkinitrd" make no reference to "/linuxrc".
I had tried installing the kernel using rpm, but the result did not convince the third party driver, that I am trying to install, that the kernel source was installed.
Thanks.
Greg Wood.
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