Re: PassingBootParameter?

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer]

By any chance you don't have an "initrd=" line in you lilo.conf file for
the 2.4.9-31 kernel??

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 12:28:45PM -0800, ThomasRatliffDDS wrote:
> 
> This kernel is on a UDMA100 60Gb drive and UDMA133controller
> 
> kernel (hd3,0)/vmlinuz-2.4.9-31 ide3=0xfff0,0xffff,9
> 
> The pci errors early in the boot process (scrolling by so fast it is
> difficult to read) are something like
> 
> pci: Error while updating region .....
> 
> The last messages look like
> 
> pivotroot:pivot_root (/sysroot, sysroot/init..)failed: 2
> Freeing unused memory: 224K freed
> kernel panic:  No init found:  Try passing init= option to kernel
> 
> The above 2.4.9-31 modular kernel passes/boots fine under lilo
> 
> A 2.2.20 kernel modularized except for the aic-7870 SCSI card and on a
> SCSI drive with the ide3=0xfff0,0xfff,9 passed boot parameter boot fine
> under lilo and grub with the UDMA100 hdg4 partition, 30Gb, mounted as a
> holding disk for amanda tape backups
> 
> Again above modular 2.4 kernel on the UDMA100 fails to boot under grub

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