No init found on rescuedisk

stefannenzen · 08-26-2004, 04:57 AM

I'm building a rescuedisk on one floppy.
When I'm booting it, I get:
"Warning: Unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel."

I've tried with using both with initrd=/boot/initrd.img and without. Still the same result.
I have /sbin/init (since missing it would be the obvious).
Been sitting with this problem all night, and the lack of sleep isn't pleasant ;-)

I would really appreciate if someone could help me with this problem.

Oliv' · 08-26-2004, 08:37 AM

Hi,

Why don't you try:

Code:

init=/sbin/init

Oliv'

stefannenzen · 08-26-2004, 09:24 AM

No, that didn't work either.

Oliv' · 08-26-2004, 09:37 AM

Well you can try:

Code:

init=/bin/sh

Oliv'

PS: I find really strange that when you do init=/sbin/init, it still displays "no init found"... 'cause for me it means that you don't have init file or at the wrong place... unless it comes from your /etc/inittab file which is either inexistant or corrupted.

stefannenzen · 08-26-2004, 10:57 AM

I tried with /bin/sh. Got the same error.

My inittab looks like this:

id:2:initdefault:
si::sysinit:/etc/rc
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty2

Oliv' · 09-01-2004, 06:33 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Warning: Unable to open an initial console.

Have you correctly configured your kernel? I mean not forgotten to set these options:

Code:

CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256

Oliv'