Hi, I am following the procedure install. However, I cannot get through the following state and I couldn't get to the Fedora 8 user/password prompt.
Please help.
Oscar
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem). Trying to move old root to /initrd ... /initrd does not exist. Ignored. Unmounting old root Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console. Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. colinux: Linux VM terminated colinux: terminated with code 3 - abnormal exit, aborting console: Monitor1080: Detached Cooperative Linux Daemon, 0.7.2 Compiled on Jan 18 2008 21:47:09 Press any key to continue . . .
"Warning: unable to open an initial console." is the error you have.
The init kills self because init can not to write to console. You need to create the base set of devices under /dev in the image file.
# mknod -m 600 dev/console c 5 1 # mknod -m 666 dev/null c 1 3 #Just in case. # mknod -m 666 dev/zero c 1 5
Please read also [FedoraHowTo]. -- HenryNe 21:51, 10 June 2008 (UTC)