[tech] cybium linux problem

[James Andrewartha]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, David Basden wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:16:08PM +0800, Alastair Irvine wrote:
> > When attempting to boot to Linux* on cybium, it gives a kernel panic after
> > mounting the filesystems; apparently something "tried to kill init".
> > 
> > * 2.4 kernel; distro uknown
> 
> Is this the default install? If so, it's Debian...
>
> I'll take a look at it next time i'm in (assuming someone hasn't fixed
> it already), but "tried to kill init" normally means that the first
> process started by the kernel (almost always init, but can also be
> something in the initrd) exited, which doesn't normally happening[0].
> 
> Normally the stuff above might show what happened before that, to
> cause init (or more likely, initrd setting up the system. man initrd on
> a linux box for more info) to die.

/sbin/init is AWOL, as is /bin/sh. Nothing to do with an initrd.

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