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Lytse Flap
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Joined: 17 Apr 2005
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 Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: Kernel panic init (searched forum en Google) |
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I barely dare to ask this is question. And before I started to post my question I searched the web and this forum for an answer. I know it's a common problem, but her I go.
And I want to complete my transformation from SuSE to gentoo.
This is the problem.
(Some people can dream this.)
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VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option kernel.
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I use a Genkernel and ext3 is installed in the kernel
This is my lilo.conf
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boot=/dev/hda
image = /boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r5
label=gentoo
read-only
root=/dev/ram0
append="init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8129 real_root=/dev/hda7"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r5
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fdisk -l output:
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image = /boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r5
label=gentoo
read-only
root=/dev/ram0
append="init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8129 real_root=/dev/hda7"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r5
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ls initrd*
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fstab
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/dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda7 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
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Is there a special key-word I can search for? I like to solve my own problems 
Google, lilo man, install manual and forum have been searched for an answer.
I think that I made a stupid mistake and I know it's very bad to start with a request on a forum. |
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wjholden
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Joined: 01 Mar 2004
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Location: Augusta, GA
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| Make sure the name of your kernel is spelled consistently everywhere. Generally this kind of error happens when the system simply cannot find the kernel you told it to boot. |
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lyallp
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Joined: 15 Jul 2004
Posts: 1579
Location: Adelaide/Australia
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Curiously, I had that exact same error.
After booting up the install CD and mounting the root filesystem, I found it was empty!
It was caused by me doing a stage 1 install, having mounted all my file systems under /mnt/gentoo except I forgot to mount my root partition under /mnt/gentoo FIRST
So, I ended up building everything into the RAM disk, which disappeared on re-boot!
Doh!
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