Re: rh6 fresh install boot failure

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Jeff DeMaagd wrote:

> 
> I am having a head-to-wall banging experience with trying to boot Redhat 6
> after a completed install.  I have found that the vmlinux.gz file was
> moved, I guess to the boot directory, but I can't figure out how to get
> MILO to read files within a directory.  I've managed to start the kernel
> from floppy, but then I get a:
> 
> kernel panic: no init found, use init=..
> 
> type error message.  I have successfully installed all RH5.x and
> 4.2 without this kind of message.  I've never had to use init= before.
> Here is my boot line:
> 
> boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda2

RH6.0 seems to install the kernel as /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-16

So you could use something like

boot sda2:boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-16 root=/dev/sda2

assuming that sda2 is the right partition.

--rdp

Rich Payne
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