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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.

I got to thinking that perhaps I could get DSL to boot using 8363's kernel. Anybody think so?

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.

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.

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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