"Kernel Panic: No Init found" on syslinux

[pizarro84]

Good Day! I am having troubles on making a partition boot with Linux using syslinux as my bootloader. I always get this message:
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I have already applied rdev on the kernel to specify /dev/hdb1 as root and even set bit14 to zero but to no avail.

Hoping someone could help me with this situation.

[pizarro84]

To supplement my question, could it be possible that the culprit is my boot loader? Thanks in advance..

[MikeTbob]

More than likely you are pointing the bootloader at the wrong partition or something. Did you compile this kernel yourself?

[atreyu]

Are you using syslinux or extlinux? Just curious, why are you not using grub, or even lilo?

[pizarro84]

@MikeTbob: Yes I did compile this kernel myself, I am using a FAT32 partition and also enabled FAT32 support at kernel configuration. I also applied necessary rdev parameters on the kernel that I compiled..

@atryu: Yes I am using syslinux. I prefer to use syslinux since the procedure to copy the boot code can be done with a single command with parameters. I need to append that command in a shell script since I am trying to automate transfer of boot code and kernel to a partition, something like an installer. Haven't tried LILO tho..

[MikeTbob]

Well make sure that you compiled support for your Linux filesystem, EXT3 or 4 into the kernel and not as modules.

[pizarro84]

Yes sir the kernel has built-in support for the required file systems including FAT and NTFS. I also used rdev on the kernel and changed the root drive to /dev/sdb1 but I still get that message. I even tried modifying the fstab by including an entry for /dev/sdb1