I am receiving a Kernel Panic: No Init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

Not sure how to proceed from here.
Where do I specify the init= option?
Where do I find the documentation that describes what I can/should pass in the init= option?

What other information from the boot screen would be useful in diagnosing this issue?

Thanks.

"I am receiving a Kernel Panic: No Init found. Try passing init= option to kernel."

This is the kernel's "I give up message". To diagnose the problem we need the half dozen or so messages ahead of the Kernel Panic message. Also a history of recent changes that you have made to your system would be helpful.

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Steve Stites

This is the first time I have tried to load and run Linux.
It is on a 64MB laptop...booted from a floppy...Linux installed as C:\Linux...no network connection...
The messages are as follows:
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LVM version 1.0.8(17/11/2003)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linunx TCP/IP 1.0 for Net4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache has table of 512 buckets, 4kBytes
TCP: Hast tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linus NET4.0
UMSDOS 0.86k (compatibility level 0.4, fast msdos)
check_psuedo_root: mounted as root
VGS: Mounted root (umsdos filesystem)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

This sounds like an unzip problem. What program did you use to unzip the amigo.zip file?
Winrar doesn't work well. winzip usually works, ALZIP is best since that's what they are made with. Be sure and unzip directly where it will be used -copying will usually corrupt the files.

Saved original directory.
Unzipped with WinZip to final target location.
Ran WinDiff...only file different was the .bat which I changed to make all references in line 1 to explicitly state c:
Rebooted...Same Failure.

You say you are booting with a floppy? Which one? What boot parameters are you giving?
Have you tried booting using loadlin and the linux.bat file?

I just got it to work...I was using /dev/hda1 and apparently need /dev/hda2.

Thanks ...