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Are you sure you have the kernel directly in the root? |
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Looks like this is they you've defined it in the files.... |
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/martin s |
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:38:52 -0000, Michael Kintzios |
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<michaelkintzios@××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I just fitted a new ATA drive (hdb) in my box and thought of doing the |
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> best thing for it - install Gentoo 2004.3 :-) |
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> I used the following partitioning scheme which spreads across both hda & |
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> hdb. Boot is ext2, the rest are reiserfs - straight forward stuff. |
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> Once I chroot into it I get: |
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> |
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> # df -h |
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> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> /dev/hdb7 393M 43M 350M 11% / |
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> none 393M 43M 350M 11% /sys |
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> none 393M 43M 350M 11% /dev |
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> none 393M 43M 350M 11% /dev/pts |
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> /dev/hdb1 46M 4.4M 39M 11% /boot |
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> /dev/hdb2 102M 33M 70M 32% /tmp |
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> /dev/hdb3 3.9G 50M 3.8G 2% /var |
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> /dev/hdb5 6.6G 861M 5.7G 13% /usr |
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> /dev/hdb6 1.6G 33M 1.6G 2% /home |
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> /dev/hda7 3.1G 421M 2.7G 14% /var/tmp |
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> /dev/hda8 306M 36M 270M 12% /lib |
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> none 393M 43M 350M 11% /dev/shm |
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> |
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> After I installed a stage three 2004.3 profile I compiled a kernel |
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> (2.6.9-r9 from gentoo-dev sources) and tried to boot into my new system. |
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> Grub launches and mounts hdb7. Then it fails with the following kernel |
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> panic error: |
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> ReiserFS: hdb7: Using r5 hash to sort names |
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> VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. |
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> Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed. |
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> Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. |
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> Try passing init= option to kernel. |
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> This is my fstab: |
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> /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime |
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> 1 1 |
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> /dev/hdb7 / reiserfs noatime |
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> 0 0 |
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> /dev/hda6 none swap sw |
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> 0 0 |
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> |
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> /dev/hdb2 /tmp reiserfs noatime |
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> 0 0 |
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> /dev/hdb3 /var reiserfs noatime |
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> 0 0 |
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> /dev/hdb5 /usr reiserfs noatime |
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> 0 0 |
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> /dev/hdb6 /home reiserfs noatime |
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> 0 0 |
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> |
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> /dev/hda7 /var/tmp reiserfs noatime |
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> 0 0 |
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> /dev/hda8 /lib reiserfs noatime |
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> 0 0 |
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> /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro |
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> 0 0 |
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> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto |
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> 0 0 |
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> |
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> # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! |
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> none /proc proc defaults |
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> 0 0 |
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> |
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> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults |
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> 0 0 |
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> I cannot for the life of me understand what's wrong. Why isn't |
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> /sbin/init loaded into memory? I've checked /etc/inittab and there's |
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> nothing wrong with it. |
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> This is my grub.conf: |
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> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 |
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> root (hd1,0) |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hdb7 |
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> |
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> I've sought help here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=262302 |
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> but none of the suggestions helped me to solve it. I don't know what |
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> else to try. Could it be my partitioning scheme, paths or access |
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> rights? I've tried different configurations of 2.6.9-r9 (just in case) |
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> but the same error occurs. |
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> |
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> Any ideas? How can I troubleshoot it? What "init= option" is it asking |
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> for? |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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Regards, |
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Martin S |
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