I have seen several reports of this problem in the forum, but no solutions.

I tried to modify the kernel in a CD-boot Knoppix (I needed devfs support, so I grabbed the Knoppix-kernel-source package, kept the same kernel config except for devfs, and recompiled). When I boot the CD, it grabe root.img, and then gives the following message:

Kernel panic : No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel

If I use the default boot.img, my slightly modified Knoppix CD boots fine. It's only when I try to use the image with my kernel that I have problems.

When I made the new boot.img, I modified as little as possible. I kept the same mroot, I just replaced the kernel.

Is there something else I'm missing? Or, does anyone else have a working boot.img that includes a kernel with devfs support?

Thanks,
Todd