[syslinux] pxelinux.cfg/default config issues

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Mar 8 13:13:07 PST 2004


Manuel Tuthill wrote:
>>Subject: Re: [syslinux] pxelinux.cfg/default config issues
> 
> 
> Just a thought on the issues I've been having with the init= argument being
> passed to the kernel. The default argument is /sbin/init so I made a copy of
> the static bash executable and called it init and moved it to /sbin. It
> still doesn't boot unless I specify init=/sbin/init manually.
> 
> why could this be happening?
> 

One possibility is the ordering of arguments.  bash is *not* a
protocol-compliant init binary, it just happens to work most of the time.

	-hpa




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