| 12:30:40 | Inertia | Hellooo? |
| 12:31:29 | Tangent | Inertia : Hey |
| 12:33:17 | Inertia | heya mate ;) |
| 12:33:19 | Inertia | howz it going? |
| 12:35:56 | Inertia | any ideas why I might be getting a No init found kernel panic? |
| 12:36:44 | Inertia | :S |
| 12:37:44 | Tangent | Inertia : Non-executable linuxrc? |
| 12:38:07 | Inertia | where is the linuxrc stored? |
| 12:38:14 | Tangent | Inertia : Things are going pretty well btw... been hacking away on my iPAQ for the last few days.. |
| 12:38:31 | Tangent | Inertia : May not be a linuxrc on the psion image you're using.. normally it's in /linuxrc |
| 12:38:44 | Tangent | Inertia : You pass init=/linuxrc to the kernel when you boot it |
| 12:39:00 | Tangent | Inertia : You could also pass it init=/bin/sh to help with debugging |
| 12:39:09 | Inertia | what does that do? |
| 12:39:14 | Inertia | sorry - dense here. |
| 12:39:36 | Inertia | I dont think I have a linuxrc... |
| 12:40:31 | Tangent | Inertia : You normally use a linuxrc with an initial ramdisk to configure stuff before /sbin/init starts |
| 12:40:42 | Inertia | right - well Im not using an initrd - Im currently trying to boot off my cf |
| 12:40:57 | Tangent | Inertia : For example... the one on my iPAQ starts pcmcia support, mounts a disk, pivot_roots to the disk, and then runs init |
| 12:41:33 | Inertia | any thoughts? |
| 12:41:58 | Inertia | should I dump a linuxrc on the cf? |
| 12:44:05 | Inertia | Tangent :"( |
| 12:49:43 | Inertia | Tangent... please - I am in much need of your assistance... |
| 12:50:00 | Tangent | Inertia : try passing your kernel init=/bin/sh |
| 12:50:11 | Tangent | Inertia : Sorry... I kkep on getting sidetracked |
| 12:50:14 | Inertia | tried that . |
| 12:50:22 | Inertia | hehe np |
| 12:50:23 | Tangent | Inertia : What happened? |
| 12:52:58 | Tangent | Inertia : How much memory does your Psion have? |
| 12:54:03 | Tangent | Inertia : Hrm.... what you using for an initrd at the moment? |
| 12:55:50 | Inertia | hmm - fristly we are talking Psion 5 here just to make sure ... but am confused... as I was under the impression that when you managed to create a bootable system on your cf you didnt need to load an initrd? |
| 12:56:16 | Tangent | Inertia : Quite possibly so... I've always used an initrd... |
| 12:56:37 | Inertia | hmmm :S |
| 12:56:45 | Inertia | you see Im not able to create my own initrds.. |
| 12:56:51 | Inertia | well yet nehow. |
| 21:14:16 | Inertia | Tangent... |
| 21:33:36 | johnix | hi |
| 22:22:10 | Inertia | Hellp :"( |
| 22:22:53 | Inertia | please.........! |
| 22:46:06 | johnix | yup? |
| 22:53:42 | Inertia | heya :) |
| 22:53:59 | Inertia | Im having a few problems booting off my cf - do you have a moment to give some advice? |
| 22:54:49 | johnix | well, I was going to bed now |
| 22:55:00 | johnix | but if your quick enough? |
| 22:55:14 | johnix | go ahead |
| 22:57:12 | Inertia | would you mind checking your sourceforge emails -there is one there from me - describing the problem - that might help? |
| 22:57:43 | Inertia | but if it is too late dont worry... |
| 22:58:04 | johnix | reading |
| 22:58:55 | johnix | yes |
| 22:59:02 | johnix | I've had the same problem |
| 22:59:37 | johnix | it was an error in my alro.cfg |
| 23:00:46 | johnix | I had "root=/dev/hda2" on a separate line, not as a kernel param |
| 23:01:51 | johnix | you may want to check that |
| 23:02:26 | johnix | It would be nice if we could know _which_ filesystem is mounted as root in this case |
| 23:02:58 | johnix | because this error message probably indicates that it's the wrong fs, but doesn't tell enough |
| 23:03:40 | johnix | in my case, I was hinted by a boot message saying "mounted root (msdos filesystem)" or something like that |
| 23:05:57 | johnix | That's the line: boot = root=/dev/hda2 |
| 23:06:26 | johnix | the kernel checks for various files |
| 23:06:46 | johnix | when it needs to boot. It needs one as a 1st process (init) |
| 23:08:11 | johnix | it looks for /sbin/init, /etc/init, /bin/init, /bin/sh (from linux/init/main.c) |
| 23:08:33 | johnix | I hope that helps you... |
| 23:08:41 | johnix | good night |