New install boots and then has a kernel panic.

chris_andrew

Hi, all.

I'm happy to say that I completed an install today, on a i686 box.

When I did the reboot, I got the Gentoo splash screen, then some scrolling (boot) text. Unfortunately, after Gentoo recognised my harddrives, I got a kernel panic, saying:

"No filesystem could mount root, tried rieserfs, ext.......... kernel panic".

When I compiled the kernel, I made sure that ext2 and ext3 were included (built in, not modules). Can anyone help me?

Many thanks,

Chris.

poly_poly-man · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject:

your grub.conf and partition information?
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chris_andrew · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject:

Ppm,

Thanks for replying.

My partitions look like this:

hda1 / ext3
hdb1 swap
hdb2 /home

Not sure how to get the grub info, can you help me?

Thanks,

Chris.

poly_poly-man · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject:

should be /boot/grub/grub.conf... boot a livecd to get it.
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chris_andrew · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject:

As I get the splash screen, can I enter grub through that? If not, would I use the Gentoo CD, then mount my root partition?

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo ?

Thanks,

Chris.

chris_andrew · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject:

I managed to look at Grub from the splash screen. It looks something like this:

title gentoo Linux install-kernel (the name of my kernel)

root (hd0,0)

kernel /boot/install-kernel root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda1
#initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5

poly_poly-man · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject:

If you have an initrd (if you used genkernel), uncomment the line.

If you don't, take out real_root, replace root with the correct hard drive partition
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chris_andrew · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:31 pm Post subject:

I didn't use genkernel.

Can I alter the line so it looks like this?

kernel /boot/install-kernel root=/dev/ram0 root=/dev/hda1

poly_poly-man · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject:

chris_andrew · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject:

poly_poly-man,

SUCCESS :-)

I can now boot into Gentoo for the first time, after trying on many occasions over several years. Thank you :-)

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I have networking problems, but as I have a bootable system, I'm happy to work that out in slow time.

Cheers,

Chris.