BT4 beta Hard drive install

[mage2]

I tried the guide and tried installing it to a Sun Virtual box session . I made a 12 gig virtual hdd, made 3 partitions and followed the guide as if I was installing to a normal HDD. I must have missed something because im getting.
"kernel panic - not syncing: No init found try passing init= option to kernel"
I looked at the guide and nothing points to this.
What am i missing, could this be caused by me having the wrong partition set with the boot flag?

i know its something lame and simple but its driving me batty

[jahboite]

Thank you for the HD install guide - it worked as advertised.

My only hitch was running out of space whilst copying from the mounted ISO - I'd created a 4GB virtual disk which wasn't enough.

In order to get to the point where I could follow the excellent install guide I had to create a new virtual machine and the key thing here was choosing a custom setup in the New VM Wizard and then selecting the BusLogic SCSI adapter rather than LSI Logic which is the default for "Other Linux 2.6.x kernel" VMs. Maybe I should have chosen to create an Ubuntu type guest OS instead of "Other Linux 2.6.x kernel"...

[kartoffelmeister]

I did everything but when I reboot Lilo gives the L 07 error so it after some unfarmilairity with lilo I figured out that it's failing at bios any ideas what I might need to reconfigure?
Thanks in advance.

[Archangel-Amael]

I did everything but when I reboot Lilo gives the L 07 error so it after some unfarmilairity with lilo I figured out that it's failing at bios any ideas what I might need to reconfigure?
Thanks in advance.

FYI lilo 07

[kartoffelmeister]

Yes "after some unfarmilairity" hence reading I actually found that page myself :-/ I understand not many people these days can do their own investigation but I did look around I still cant figure out how to fix it though.

[T4mer]

Kernel panic - not syncing : No init found . Try passing init = option to kernel

What can i do ?

[KMDave]

What can i do ?

Did you make sure that you had the correct partitions used or did you just type the commands given in the tutorial?

[T4mer]

Did you make sure that you had the correct partitions used or did you just type the commands given in the tutorial?

Yes i did ,
all commands were performed fine
i am installing bt4 on vmware , choosing system type linux other 2.6.x Kernel

if any one can help please !!

[pueblobo]

Hi, thanks for your time and effort to create the tutorial, which works fine.

But,
after following you tutorial step by step to install BT4 on a 8GB USB Stick (everything worked like you've written it down in the PDF), I get a

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,3) Error Message.

Any ideas, how I can fix this? What additional information can I provide, to give you an idea, what the problem is??

Any help is appreciated!!!

[Pyro01]

I too am also having a problem with kernal. At reboot I got "Kernal panic - not syncing: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,19)". Do I have to reformat the hard drive and try again, or will I still be able to go back and fix the drive on the BT4 Live CD? As to what I need to do to fix the problem, I don't know .

Edit: I'm trying to install this on an old 6GB USB to IDE hardrive, which essentially acts like a thumbdrive. It uses /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sda for a path. I think the problem may lie in the lilo.conf file. No matter how many times I tried to change the lilo.conf file, I couldn't make the warning that says it can't find the boot sector, go away. I'll try reinstalling it and post the lilo.conf file here when I get to that part.