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Topic: USB Boot Woes, Gettin close, please all gurus help

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Aeros_Saga Offline

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Joined: Dec. 2003

Posted: Dec. 29 2003,05:50

Alright, I've been trying to boot DSL from my usb storage device. I am using the runt boot image, as I have had the most success with it. Currently during boot it recognizes my storage device, sees the kernel, mounts the filesystem, and then I get this:

VFS: Mounted root umsdos filesystem
Trying to move old root to /initrd...Failed
Unmounting old root
Trying to free ramdisk memory...ok
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
Warning: unable to open initial console
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel

My bootline in syslinux is as follows:
boot: usb root=/dev/sda1 rw -s

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to correct this issue? Any help is much appreciated

Regards,

Aeros