problems with zipslack

problems with zipslack

[Kristoffer Gustafsson]

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Hello
I have a problem with the zipslack distribution.
When I boot it I get the following error message:
Warning: unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic: no init found
Try passing init=option to kernel.
Can someone help me?



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Re: problems with zipslack

[brent harding]

A file probably got out of sync. /etc/inittab more than likely. I had that
happen when I used an echo command on it thinking echo appends to the end
of a file, and lost my whole file then, so I deleted the file, got one from
the zip file, and copied it back in, only to find out that the system still
said it wasn't there. The umsync program that sets up the linux structure
on the umsdos file system runs after init, so if you do this, I would
advise shutting down, going to windows or dos and deleting it and putting
it back in, as then the file will exist to linux. I fixed things by using a
bootdisk and rootdisk to run umsync on my dos partition.
At 04:51 PM 6/30/00 +0200, you wrote:
>    Hello I have a problem with the zipslack  distribution. When I boot it
>I get the following error  message: Warning: unable to open an  initial
>console Kernel panic: no init found Try passing init=option to kernel. Can
>someone help me?     

Re: problems with zipslack

[KC4BQI]

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I had this same problem a few days ago.  I had loaded zipslack several times before and did not have this problem.  I can tell you what I did, but not how it made things work.

I tried several times to reload zipslack from scratch and received this same message.  I noticed that I had accidently copied some of the linux files into the c:\ directory.  I deleted those files and started linux again.  It worked!  


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kristoffer Gustafsson 
  To: blinux-list@redhat.com 
  Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 10:51 AM
  Subject: problems with zipslack


  Hello
  I have a problem with the zipslack distribution.
  When I boot it I get the following error message:
  Warning: unable to open an initial console
  Kernel panic: no init found
  Try passing init=option to kernel.
  Can someone help me?
   
   

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