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Posted: Jan. 24 2005,17:24 QUOTE
8363,

Well, I tried it, and was very excited until it got to the error:
"Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init=option to kernel."
I reformatted the cf card and tried it a second time, but had the same results. Wow! this is as close as I have ever been to getting this thing to boot. Got any ideas? Please.

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Posted: Jan. 24 2005,17:26 QUOTE
I got to thinking that perhaps I could get DSL to boot using 8363's  kernel. Anybody think so?

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Posted: Jan. 24 2005,18:49 QUOTE
Perhaps the syslinux that frugal is using does not have drivers for the cf reader.

Maybe it's on top of a usb bus?

Have you tried using the usb boot floppy's syslinux?

Just firing out in the dark, i really have no clue.

-J.P.

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Posted: Jan. 24 2005,19:12 QUOTE
JP,

Thanks for the post, but really all I need to make this boot DSL is a uncomressed kernel image. 8363's kernel booted just fine it just couldn't find the init file to continue the boot up. I'm hoping he comes back to the forum and sheds a little more light on the subject, because I would really like to get this thing running DSL preferably, but would take any Linux distro now.

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Posted: Jan. 24 2005,20:09 QUOTE
caulktel,

normally the kernel is saerching for "init". Init is a function of bin/busybox. There must  a link from inti to busybox.
ls -l /bin/init       must give    bin/init -> busybox .
Init (busybox) now is looking for  "etc/init.d/rcS"  and runs it.
look on your CF-Card if the files "bin/busybox" /bin/init" (as link) and
"etc/init.d/rcS" are there.
Another idea is: did you update the  clients firmware ?
Maybe the firmware is looking in a wrong directory.
For updating the firmware look here:
http://csgrad74.math.uwaterloo.ca/~cdmica....TO.html
I update the firmware before  i started me tryings.
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