Re: PassingBootParameter?

[Christoph Plattner]

I also want to give the hint to `initrd', because you are speaking about
the
"modularized kernel" !!

So if your `lilo.conf' included the line `initrd' then you have to use
the
grub command or config

initrd /boot/your_init_rd

With friendly regards
Christoph P.


Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> 
> 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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