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On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 17:13 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote: |
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> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> > kernel it gave me a kernel panic. It said something about not being |
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> > able to find the root fs. Should there be an initrd line? Also, I |
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> you only need an initrd if you have some special hardware. Do you? I.E. |
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> sata controler (intel ICH6), SCSI, or some special things with your root |
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> filesystem like lvm, md... |
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> > saved the output of the genkernel script. I mv'd the files |
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> > from /etc/kernel to /tmp, but I still saw this line in the genkernel |
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> > output: |
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> > |
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> > * Linux Kernel 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 for x86... |
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> > * kernel: >> Running mrproper... |
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> > * config: Using config from /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 |
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> > * Previous config backed up to .config.bak |
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> > * >> Running oldconfig... |
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> > |
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> > Should this be happening? |
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> thats fine. this lines told you, that a generic kernel-config (like on |
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> livecd) is used. |
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> The first thing is to make your kernel booting. This is not a hard thing, |
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> if you have no special setup. The siplest case is that your root=/dev/hdxx |
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> in grub.conf is wrong. Type "mount" and see what device is mounted for |
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> "/boot". If you have none for "/boot" look for "/". Then use this device |
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> in the root= parameter. |
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> Sascha. |
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Then why does Linux not continue to boot when I specify a kernel in |
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grub.conf without an initrd? |
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