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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: Ben Ricker <bricker@×××××.net>
Cc: Gentoo PPC <gentoo-ppc-user@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Problem booting Old World
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:17:27
Message-Id: 3F2426DC.9080906@technaut.darktalker.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-ppc-user] Problem booting Old World by Ben Ricker
1 Ben Ricker wrote:
2 > I have Gentoo's LiveCD 1.4-r6. I am trying to boot the installer using
3 > BootX. I copied the vmlinux CDs to a Linux kernel folder on my OS 9
4 > partition. When I boot up BootX, I choose the kernel and the initrd from
5 > the LiveCD.
6 >
7 > The kernel boots seemingly perfectly until I start getting messages like
8 > the one below:
9 >
10 > EXT2-FS error )device Ramdisk (1,0):ext2_read_inode:unable to read
11 > inodeblock
12 > Kernel Panic: No init found
13 >
14 > What am I missing here?
15
16 I found this one out the hard way. You have to specify 'init=/linuxrc'
17 in the kernel parameters box.
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