[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

[Maxim Wexler]

as a follow up go here:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13560

Virtually identical problem. Check out the screen pic. Just like mine,
save for the hardware and fs differences.

mw

On 10/21/09, Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@×××××.com> wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Did linux#make menuconfig followed by linux# make && make
> modules_install on the .2.6.30-gentoo-r7 sources. And copied over the
> new kernel and rebooted.
>
> The kernel panicked. The relevant messages are:
>
> <...>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1,
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console
> Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to
> kernel.
> Pid: 1. comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-gentoo-r7 #2
> Call Trace:
>  [<c0479986>] ? printk+0xf/0x11
>  [<c04798dc>]  panic+0x39/0xd4
>  [<c020135z>]  init_post+0x13c/0x13e
>  [<c05b62dc>]  kernel_init+0x148/0x152
>  [<c05b6194>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x152
>  [<c02033cf>]  kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
>
>
> So far I've tried adding 'init=/bin/bash' and 'init=/sbin/init' to the
> command line. No help. Someone in a forum suggested chrooting and
> emerging sysvinit. But that's already installed.
>
> There's a million hits on google for this error message with about as
> many solutions.
>
> Assuming it has something to do with my kernel config, I tried running
> $diff -y on the two configs but at approx. 2600 lines per file I'm
> going to need some advice on what to zero in on.
>
> I tried to keep the new config as same as the old. But there's a lot
> of new features, weird stuff like CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS=y and the new
> decompression protocol.
>
>
> Maxim
>