Re: I compiled the kernel but it doesn't do any thing, its a bit like typing "halt".

From: John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 12:29:23 EST

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> Of course its probably something to do with init,
> but does anyone know whats going wrong?

Boot with init=/bin/sh and see what happens.

> whats system.map actually for

Decoding numerical addresses in to function names.

John.
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