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From: Jonathan Callen <abcd@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:56:19
Message-Id: 4AE0FF2D.1030608@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] kernel panic -- finding proper config diff by Maxim Wexler
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4 Maxim Wexler wrote:
5 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1,
6 > Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed
7 > Warning: unable to open an initial console
8 > Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel.
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10 Do you have a /dev/sdb? If so, try setting root=/dev/sdb1, and see if
11 that works (sometimes the kernel changes its initialization order around
12 between x.y.{z,z+1} releases).
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14 - --
15 Jonathan
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