Re:[Qemu-devel] Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Trypassing init= option to kernel.

[Clemens Kolbitsch]

On Friday 19 October 2007 09:13:40 address@hidden wrote:
> Then I try this command:
> qemu -m 32 hda rootfs.img kernel linux-2.6.18.1/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> -append “root=/dev/hda \clock=pit”
>
> and I get the error...
>
> I tried to pass init=/sbin/init or init=/bin/init but it doesn't help...

Hi!
Although allmost every documentation tells you to use exactly what you did, I 
always use

qemu [....] -append "root=/dev/hda1"

(note HDA1 instead HDA)

and direct booting works fine for me :-)

Clemens