[Peeweelinux] Compact Flash newbie

[Adi Linden]

Hi,

Do you have "/sbin/init" in your filesystem? Have you tried using the 
"minimal" project, it should be already to go and get you to a login and 
shell prompt.

Adi


On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Kevin Brouelette wrote:

> 
> 
> Hello,
> I'm new to the Mini/Embedded Linux/Flash media world and need some help, here's my setup.
> 
> Developing on a RedHat 7.1 with Sandisk SDDR-31 USB adapter, 8meg flash media. [/dev/sda]
> I've been able to build a simple  project on the flash media from scratch [no PWL] using Syslinux/Busybox/Kernel.
> I move the Flash to my test PC [an old 486 with a Compact Flash --> pcmcia..... pcmcia --> IDE adapter]  and it boots fine.
> Now, I'm working with PWL and have setup a small project using default packages from PWL and I can extract the project to the Flash card.  
> I move the card to my 486 can  starts to bootup,  detects the hardware and then kernel panics with:
> 
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
> Kernel panic:  "No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel"
> 
> 
> I've used both Lilo/ext2 and Syslinux/fat16 and both reach the same error.
> Looks like the root filesystem 'was' able to mouunt which when I search the mailing list archives, it seems that others
> with this problem haven't succeeded with that step.
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> 
> Kevin Brouelette
>