Hey all-
Hope that this is a better place than the Mepis forum, since I am using the SLAX LiveCD Scripts, based on Slackware....

Anyway, I've opened the tarball and followed the instructions, but my own live CD is getting a "kernel panic: init not found" when i boot. There are a variety of reasons that I can think of, but I don't even know where to begin.

Could be:
1. Mepis uses a strange kernel?

2. Mepis is not Debian-standard enough to use these scripts?

3. I cannot find the squashfs.ko module even after I install it via Synaptic, so I've used the one provided by the SLAX LiveCD scripts (I have found a shellscript for squashfs though, should I run this to patch the kernel?)

4. I don't have enough space on / so after booting I am mounting an empty 8GB partition onto /tmp (where the script resides), which makes opening any other programs impossible (KDEinit failed to start XXX) until after I unmount /dev/sda3 from /tmp. Is this also hurting my liveCD-making abilities?

5. The recent 5.4.0 script set needs a 2.6.16 kernel maybe?

Thanks for any ideas...

sounds like the kernel is booting, but it can't access the / filesystem...

maybe check your bootloader's config, probably isolinux.cfg or something...

also, make sure your kernel has built-in support for the filesystem your ramdisk or whatever is using... it has to be built-in support, not a module (unless you use an initrd)...

sorry i can't be more specific, i don't really know how the slax build scripts work...

just my ...