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Message from Steven
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> Now when I try to boot using the HD, I get
> "VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed

So far so good.  The kernel has loaded.

> Warning: unable to open initial console
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel"

It's not correctly accessing your root filesystem.  
Probably something is wrong in your /etc/lilo.conf

Please boot using floppy 1 (hd root=/dev/hda1)
and tell us exactly what it says in /etc/lilo.conf

Cheers,
Steven