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MTer
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Joined: 19 Apr 2002
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Location: The Netherlands
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 Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 5:13 pm Post subject: Kernel panic: No init found. (fresh install) |
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Hi all,
I've been using Gentoo for about 4 months now (and it absolutely rocks  ), but last week I was forced to do a hard reset of my laptop, due to a power crash. I needed to remove the battery as well as the ac-adapter in order to reboot the machine. (it was completely frozen, even my reset button refused to work  ) Unfortunatly I couldn't boot the machine into gentoo anymore, the filesystem (Reiserfs) was damaged badly)
I just finished a fresh install off gentoo 1.1a (downloaded the new boot-cd yesterday) and immediately after the first reboot I get this error message:
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VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Warning: unable to mount devfs, err: -2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 244k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
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I already checked the kernel configuration for devfs, which is enabled, see my .
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CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y
# CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS is not set
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I really don't know what I've done wrong during the install, I guess it's a problem in the kernel configuration, maybe I forgot to enable something. 
Some info about my hardware: (Sony VAIO PCG-Z600 TEK)
* P III 700 MHZ
* 128 MB SDRAM
* 20 GB IBM-DSJA 220
* external cdrom (pcmcia) and fdd(usb)
Does anybody have any suggestions how to solve this boot problem
Any help appreciated, Arnold
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MTer
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Problem solved! 
While checking all changes I've made to my system last week, I discovered a mistake in /boot/grub/menu.lst
I changed my partition configuration, but forgot to change the partition number for the root-partition in menu.lst 
greetz, Arnold
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pjp
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Fenrir's problem was split off to here as it seemed to be taking on a life of its own.
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gigatexal
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Location: Rexburg, Idaho
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 4:57 am Post subject: |
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um...i am having the exact same problem but when i looked for my menu.lst find -iname menu.lst nothing came up.....
yes i am running grub, and kernel 2.6
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cyrillic
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The configuration file for older versions of GRUB (0.90 and earlier) is called menu.lst
In the current versions of GRUB, it is called grub.conf
You can find it at /boot/grub/grub.conf after mounting your /boot partition. |
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