Re: Kernel Panic - try passing init= to kernel

Dean McDonald (dean@connect.com.au)
Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:04:45 +1100

>When this scsi card is on and bootable, it generates a message that says
>"Unable to find console. Try passing init= to kernel.".
>
>Where is the init= parameter documented? I have grepped the docs and I cannot
>find anything that seems to fit the description.
>

I had a similar problem not too long ago (UW SCSI disk, etc etc). The
problem turned out several binaries in /sbin were corrupted. The error
was somewhat misleading (in my cace anyway).

try breaking out the boot/rescue disk, and replacing /sbin/init with a
new binary, and see how it goes. You may find there'll be new errors
appearing, so possibly a few more files in /sbin may need replacing.

Dean.

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Dean McDonald
System Administrator
Connect.com.au Pty Ltd.


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