Netboot: kernel panic no init found

[Graham Leggett]

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. :(

Regards,
Graham
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