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Gentoo_boy
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 Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:07 am Post subject: Kernal panic: No init found problem :( |
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Hi there,
I'm new to this forum, need help to solve a problem:
Kernel panic: No init found, Try passing init=option to kernal
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#boot settings
grub edit> kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda2
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No idea how to fix this problem, please give me a hand on this...
Last edited by Gentoo_boy on Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:14 am; edited 1 time in total |
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oumpah-pah
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| You wrote kernal instead of kernel. |
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Gentoo_boy
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:16 am Post subject: |
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| oumpah-pah wrote: | | You wrote kernal instead of kernel. |
thats not the problem.. :p
the real problem isn't fixed yet...  |
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oumpah-pah
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:26 am Post subject: |
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| In that case, be more specific. When, in the boot process, does the error message arise ? Also check your kernel configuration to see if you compiled support for your root filesystem into the kernel. |
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yinyang
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:38 am Post subject: |
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Your partition scheme might be of help too.
Have you a seperate boot partition for example? |
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Gentoo_boy
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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| yinyang wrote: | Your partition scheme might be of help too.
Have you a seperate boot partition for example? |
hd0 is the boot patition.. I'm kinda new to linux too, pls tell me more clearly 
why commands are limited in grub edit? cannot use: lilo/nano/edit editors to see configuration files...
boot setting looks like this:
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grub edit> kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda2 init=/linuxre real_root=/dev/hda2
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Setting the init also didn't help much...
How to find kernel's real location in grub edit.. cuz I think that kernel path is set wrongly, not sure...
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kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage
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yinyang
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think your boot partition is hd0 
hd0 is your harddrive, I assume you installed grub there which means that you have written it to the master boot record (MBR) of your harddrive. Your partitions following grub style syntax are labeled hdx,y where x is your harddrive and y is a number from 0-... which marks the actual partition on that drive.
Btw, you don't need to use the grub editor for configuring everything. The only time where you need it is right after emerging grub (though there are other ways here too) to write it to whichever boot record you want it to be and afterwards just use a normal editor to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf.
For the partition scheme I am interested in the partitioning you did prior to installing gentoo the time you used fdisk and at least made 2 partitions for gentoo and swap. |
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rush_ad
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | root (hd0,1)
grub edit> kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda2 init=/linuxre real_root=/dev/hda2 |
change it to
| Code: | | grub edit> kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda2 real_root=/dev/hda2 |
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didl
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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Please post the content of your /etc/fstab.
If you proceeded according to the installation guide your
boot partition will be on hda1 and your root partition
will be on hda3. Hence the line should read sth like
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kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.7 root=/dev/hda3
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BTW: You should edit the file /boot/grub/grub.conf instead
of doing it from the grub command line. |
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Gentoo_boy
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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hi,
found the problem, /etc/ is missing from the drive and 2nd hdd is showing that it has nil data, it's very wiered.. Bootable drive has all other files and folders except /etc/ directory..
I checked that by Gentoo's LiveCD.. have no idea how it got erazed.
I think I need to install the fresh copy of Gentoo.
Thanks to you guys for trying to solve the problem.. |
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