AAAAHHHHH Slack!!!

[snowgod]

Hey everyone:

I'm trying to install slack 8, and I need a boot disk since the bios does not support booting from the cd. So anyways, when I put in the disk (bare.i) I get stopped with the error message:

Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel

so what should I do, I have remade the disk, and have no ideal what kind of option to pass to the kernel. Anyone have this prob before?

[Apostata]

Possibly stupid/redundant questions:

1. You're using rawrite to make the boot disks?

2. Is this a new HD, or previously used...in which case, have you defragged it?

[ 19 September 2001: Message edited by: Apostata ]

[snowgod]

1. I used dd the first time and rawrite the second.

2. It was used previously on a redhat install, I haven't defragged it because I was unaware of such a thing in linux. How would this be the problem anyways?? thanks, hopefully someone has seen this and fixed it though

[Nalle]

Hm... I've not tried the 2.2.19 Kernel for the Åtta, but with the 2.4.5 Kernel, I've had no problems.

Try using that in stead - you'll find it under bootdsk144/2.4.5/ on the cd.

The rootdisk is the same (color.gz)


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