Netboot: kernel panic no init found

[Thomas Cameron]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 16:26 +0200, Graham Leggett wrote:
> akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 
> > I have traced all such kernel panic errors to errors on the grub line
> > being read. Does the kernel version conform to the initrd version. Is
> > the root indicated really the root partition with the right name (or
> > label) in the fstab file. Do you have an /initrd directory on the
> > machine. etc, etc. and so forth.
> 
> Turns out the system-config-netboot package that Redhat produced is 
> fundamentally broken.
> 
> It had set up Linux to boot from an initrd, however the initrd was 
> missing the required libraries to make bash work, which in turn stopped 
> their replacement init script from working, which in turn caused the 
> kernel panic.
> 
> Performing a whole lot of surgery to the initrd file eventually got the 
> system to netboot, but the Fedora Core 2 system still has a long way to 
> go before it will work propery diskless. :(

Can you advise as to what exactly you did to make it work?
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Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT