machine doesnt seem to take kernel options?

i have a server that's dead, when it boots up it gives the following message, complaining it cant find initrd:
"Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel"
booting with linux init=/bin/sh, it still complains about not finding initrd, and gives the same message. booting linux rescue doesn't seem to phase it either, neither does specifying root= and kernel=. gives the same messages upon boot every time. is there some option you can compile with to make the kernel not take user-specified options on boot, or is there something else wrong?

it says "init" not found, not "initrd"... but i'll guess now you quoted the message wrong. if my assumption is wrong, forget this post...


yes... these are not related to initrd at all ...
try "linux noinitrd" instead.


you can setup this with lilo and probably you can easily patch the kernel too.