2.6-test5 problem

[Jerry McBride]

On Friday 12 September 2003 08:12 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Friday 12 September 2003 18:14 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:07:22 -0400
> >
> > Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> > > Trying to load up the test5 kernel and I have it compiled, etc.
> > > Also have been reading David's blurb on 2.6 and think I have all
> > > that covered.
> > >
> > >
> > > On boot, I get an error:
> > >
> > > Kernel panic:  Attempted to kill init!
> > >
> > > Due to the debugging info I can't see what it was working on just
> > > prior to the complaint, but it was well into the hardware discovery
> > > phase.
> > >
> > > 

Try passing "init=/bin/sh" during kernel startup. Also, is it possible that 
you may have tweaked or passed odd/extreme compiler options when making the 
kernel? One other thought.... maybe you need to update /sbin/init?

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