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Tycho Clendenny wrote:
>
> BS 3.40, MD5-verified 2-floppy version on a Gateway2000 Solo P3C. 
> I inserted floppy #1 and saw LILO and it showed a lot of output, 
> then stopped:
> "Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel."

The kernel is not finding the filesystem (on ramdisk).
There are several possible reasons for this:
(1) faulty floppy (raw copying requires a perfect floppy).
(2) the kernel can't find ramdisk (shared memory problem?)
(3) something is tripping up the kernel (setting? hardware?)

> Incidentally, why is BL using such an old kernel?

BasicLinux is targetted at old PCs so it uses a small
kernel (and library) to maximize performance on slow, 
low-RAM systems.

Cheers,
Steven