Zipslack "Warning unable to open an inital console."

mike1646 · 03-16-2004, 02:36 PM

HI

i downloaded zipslack and followed all the instructions on thire site and all i get is
"Warning unable to open an inital console."
then
"kernal panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernal"

not sure what that means but please help.

aaa · 03-16-2004, 02:40 PM

How did you go about booting it?

mike1646 · 03-17-2004, 03:19 AM

I followed the instrctions on the slackware page. and loading it form the autoexec.bat file.

aaa · 03-17-2004, 09:40 AM

How did you follow the instructions, ie what partition did you choose,etc...

mike1646 · 03-17-2004, 09:51 AM

Partition is hda1

aaa · 03-17-2004, 10:20 AM

And the bat file has... (don't post the rem'd parts)

mike1646 · 03-17-2004, 12:26 PM

\linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 rw

aaa · 03-18-2004, 06:20 AM

Where did you extract the zipslack zipfile to?
Boot with a standalone bootdisk and run 'fdisk -l'. Post results.

Bootdisk site: www.toms.net/rb

mike1646 · 03-18-2004, 07:17 AM

Used c:\linux
and boot using hdd (commad.com) fat 16 fs

aaa · 03-18-2004, 09:25 AM

Boot with a Linux bootdisk and run the command.

mike1646 · 03-18-2004, 12:20 PM

Which command do you mean loadin?

aaa · 03-18-2004, 02:02 PM

fdisk -l
Post results here

mike1646 · 03-21-2004, 12:39 PM

managed to fix it by installing slackware 9.1