[mythtv-users] MythTV X-Box Frontend 0.3 Problems...

James S. White james at jameswhite.org
Wed Aug 27 13:17:54 EDT 2003


What is in youe linuxboot.cfg?  Is there a line lin "initrd= No"?
if so try removing it.

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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, John Klimek wrote:

>
> I'm trying to setup Dennis Cartier's mythtv frontend for the x-box (v0.3) and I'm having some problems.
>
> On my x-box, I have the follow files on my E:
>
> default.xbe
> initrd
> linuxboot.cfg
> myth.tgz
> myth_progfs
> myth_rootfs
> swap
> vmlinuz
>
> When I go to launch E:\default.xbe from my dashboard (EvoX), Linux starts booting up and I see a few messages, but then after only a couple of seconds I see:
>
> Kernel panic:  Attempted to kill init!
>
> Then, it freezes.
>
> Do I have something setup wrong?  I've read through the readme and configured (and re-zipped) the myth.tgz so I'm not sure why this isn't working.  I've had Ed's Debian 0.4.1 installed before so I somewhat know what I'm doing but I'm not sure why this isn't working for me.
>
> Any help would be greatly appriciated.
>
> - John
>



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