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On Wednesday 21 October 2009 21:07:18 Jonathan Callen wrote: |
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> Maxim Wexler wrote: |
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> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, |
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> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed |
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> > Warning: unable to open an initial console |
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> > Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to |
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> > kernel. |
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> To me, that looks like /dev/sda1 (which is what the kernel is using as |
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> root=) doesn't contain any of the following: |
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> /sbin/init |
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> /etc/init |
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> /bin/init |
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> /bin/sh |
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> Noting that the kernel output implied that it was an ext2 filesystem, |
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> that looks like it mounted your /boot as /, which fails as there isn't |
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> any init available on it. |
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> PS: |
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> In case you were wondering how I knew it was /dev/sda1, that's what |
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> "device 8:1" means: the block device with major number 8 and minor |
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> number 1, which happens to be the major:minor assigned to /dev/sda1. |
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Does /dev/sda1 genuinely contain / and not for example /boot? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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