Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 03 Apr 2003 16:49:58 0000 | From | "Dean McEwan" <> | Subject | Re: I compiled the kernel but it doesn't do any thing, its a bit like typing "halt |
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:38:47 John Bradford wrote: > init=/bin/sh is already defined in init/main.c isn't > it? > >Once the kernel has booted, it usually passed control to init. The >kernel usually looks for init in /sbin /etc and /bin, but if there is >no init in those locations, /bin/sh is looked for as a last resort.
>I am assuming that you have an init on your system, but something is >wrong.
Perhaps. It may be the kernel.
Using init=/bin/sh will allow you to use the shell as the init >process, which proves it's an init problem.
I did it but to no avail... Alas Mandrake sucks :-)
> >> I accidentally compiled initrd in, but ive got it off >> with "noinitrd". > >I don't really understand what you're trying to do.
Ok John, I'll put it simply, Im trying to compile a 2.5.* kernel. ;-)
Once ive got a 2.5.* series kernel to work on my machine, I've decided to download .66 when I can get the one Ive got now to compile.
>> Ok John, calm down you seem a bit agitated :-) Maybe you've been talking to Andre ;-) --- Cheers, Dean. No Warrantee for incorrectness, political or otherwise, after all, Dubya doesn't have one...
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