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Hi folks,

I finished building a LiveCD on BLFS 6.1 and got it burnt on CD-RW. It started boot but hung on;

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NET:Registered protocol family 1
NET:Registered protocol family 17
ACPI wakeup devices
SLPB PCIO USB0 USB1 USB2 UAR1 LPT1
ACPI:(support S0 S1 S4 S5)
RAMDISK:Compressed image found at block 0
VFS:Mounted root (ext3 filesystem readonly)
- (remark: this time ext3, not ext2) -
Freeing unused kernel memory:216K freed
Warning:unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic - not syncing : No init found
Try passing init=option to kernel

During booting I saw it detecting mouse, etc.

configuration file;
/isolinux/isolinux.cfg

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label livecd
kernel lfskernel

append initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc devfs=mount ramdisk_size=16384 vga=795 desktop=twm

Ran following test:
Mounting CD-RW on FC3

# gzip -dc /media/cdrom/boot/initrd.gz >initrd.img
# mkdir initrd
# mount -o loop initrd.img initrd
# ls initrd

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linuxrc lost+found

After running follows;
# ls -l /media/cdrom/mnt/ | grep linuxrc

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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5675 Oct 28 12:28 linuxrc

# ls -l /media/cdrom/ | grep linuxrc
(No printout)

changed configuration file /isolinux/isolinux.cfg as

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label livecd
kernel lfskernel
append initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 init=/mnt/linuxrc ramdisk_size=16384 vga=795 desktop=twm

Burned another CD-RW and Booted it again. It also hung at the same warning as abovementioned.

# gzip -dc /media/cdrom/boot/initrd.gz >initrd.img
# mkdir initrd
# mount -o loop initrd.img initrd
# ls -l initrd

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total 12
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Nov 1 09:54 lost+found

linuxrc was not there.

Please shed me some light where I have to check to get the problem solved. TIA

Remark:
I have /usr/ compressed as usr.sqfs, otherwise not sufficient space on CD-RW

BR
satimis