[Linux-Biella] RedHat9, slackware 9.1

[CIARROCCHI Paolo]

From: simone@caldana.org [mailto:simone@caldana.org] 

> >Ieri sera ho provato una veloce installazione di Slackware 9.1,
> 
> bravo :)
> 
> >ho evidentemente sbagliato qualocosa in fase di 
> configurazione di LILO,
> 
> scegli sempre mbr e vai tranquillo :)
> 
> >al boot la macchina mi permetteva di avviare solo WIN.
> >
> >Reboot con il secondo cd,
> >qualche mount, un chroot, un vi /etc/lilo.conf,
> >aggiunto quanto serviva, lilo -v e voila'...
> >
> >La macchina al boot mi presenta entrambe le opzioni,
> >scelgo linux, boot ma dopo qualche secondo (dopo messaggi 
> relativi VFS) 
> >mi compare un messaggio: unable to find INIT, try passing 
> init= to the 
> >kernel, o qualcosa del genere...
> >
> >Idee ?

Ora mi preoccupo...

>When this scsi card is on and bootable, it generates a message that
says
>"Unable to find console. Try passing init= to kernel.".
>
>Where is the init= parameter documented? I have grepped the docs and I
cannot
>find anything that seems to fit the description.
>

I had a similar problem not too long ago (UW SCSI disk, etc etc). The
problem turned out several binaries in /sbin were corrupted. The error
was somewhat misleading (in my cace anyway).


try breaking out the boot/rescue disk, and replacing /sbin/init with a
new binary, and see how it goes. You may find there'll be new errors
appearing, so possibly a few more files in /sbin may need replacing.



Dean.



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Dean McDonald
System Administrator
Connect.com.au Pty Ltd.