Re: Simple query

[Matt Hortman <mbhortman@ibm.net>]

you still need things like the /dev directory.  The kernel is looking for 
/dev/console.  Look at the bookdisk-HOWTO.  You need the same things in your 
filesystem that are in a boot disk.

Also, make sure init is executable.

-Matt

> I am booting my diskless Linux using etherboot. I get the following messsage.
> ..
> 
> ...
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 48K freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
> 
> I used the following command to build the tagged image:
> 
> linux-mknbi -d ram  -r ram_image.gz -k zImage -o bootImage
> 
> I even tried -a init=/bin/sh in the above command but the same problem remain
> s.
> 
> I have the following files in the ramdisk image:
> 
> /sbin/init
> /etc/inittab
> /bin/sh
> 
> Thanks,
> Piyush
> 
> 
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