fedora experts?

[Scott Oertel]

Hal Duston wrote:
> David,
>
> I can't provide you with a link to a lecture off the top of my head,
> and no longer having a need for building my own kernels, I've fallen
> back on using the distro built kernels.  I do wonder if what the kernel
> is complaining about is an initrd rather than init.  I know that the
> kernels supplied with Fedora use and initrd, as do the ones with Ubuntu.
> Perhaps that's what you are missing?  If so, you can use mkinitrd to
> create one.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Hal
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:36:07PM -0500, David Nicol wrote:
>   
>> I have been trying to get a recent, unpatched, kernel to work with a
>> fedora system.
>> I am able to get the kernel to boot but things seem to stop for want
>> of an /init program
>> in the root directory.  init=/sbin/init does not seem to help.
>>
>> Who has a link to a current boot process explanation? not a howto, but
>> a lecture,
>> covering what is supposed to be happening at each point in a modern
>> complex linux boot?
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This search should reveal some useful links:
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+boot+explained


-Scott Oertel