Re: Booting Caper.

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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    On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:34:53PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
    > Thanks a bunch you guys. You cleared up a lot of issues and misconceptions
    > I had. I thought that you could boot another kernel while another was
    > running, although in hindsight, I don't know why I thought that as the
    > current running kernel would alredy be in high memory and such...
    >
    > Well, I found a good floppy and installed a syslinux image by hand and
    > copied the proper kernel and initrd image over and it boots now. But I
    > still have one problem. I am trying to boot the new stable 2.6.0 kernel
    > and it say s some error and that I need to pass an init= option to the
    > kernel. I've never gotten this before in 2.4 kernels. What is the init
    > option and how should I use it?
    >
    Always try to quote the exact error message, not "it says some error". However,
    when you see a message about "init=", it usually means the kernel couldn't
    find /sbin/init. Either that file is missing, or (more likely) the kernel
    can't read the root partition, or is trying to read some other partition. 

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