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jgaffney
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 Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:02 pm Post subject: No init found |
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OK, can't seem to find an answer in the existing posts.
I am suddenly recieving this error when booting
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Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
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My system has been working fine for months so my config should be correct. No changes were made, it just started to happen so I'm thinkg I may have some corruption on my disk but I'm not sure how I would go about trying to repair. Any suggestions would be greatly apreciated.
Edit: The root partition is mounted. Just before the Kernel panic I also recieve this
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Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
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I aslo had an older kernel available, tried to boot to that one, same results. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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jgaffney,
Boot with the liveCD and mount your root partion at /mnt/gentoo with the o -ro option. That will stop things getting worse if you have a drive problem.
The implication from the message is the the root filesysterm was mounted and the kernel can read it but a lest one file is missing. Can you see anything obvious by looking round with the ls command.
Its worth running fsck however a few warings are in order.
1. Do not let it attempt any repairs at all on the first run - it can so more harm than good.
2. How good it is varies with filesystem.
3. You must not run fsck on a mounted filesystem
You will need to read the man page for your particular fsck (its just a front end that calls the right checker) to see how to make it run without doing any repairs.
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jgaffney
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| Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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ran fsck, all seems to be clean.
It looks like the needed files are in place to boot. Hmmmm....
Anything else I could check? |
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