From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QlIIm-0008JX-8P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:22:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F416B21C104; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE79621C04A for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9157A20C54 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:20:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:20:49 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:date:in-reply-to :references:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :mime-version; s=smtpout; bh=C8TgtanPyu+fO8USOHUWSRI+leI=; b=VmE iORdLojUMdekWoDDiknEJ+T0Wg0IY4u7DYVH+qestOE06UulsadRd2PRtqJelpXU xcJrgklHQ1YKrNyWfJQihu2y17ftpu8TyVjcwJFDwIg8yqJGMZnTe/AQ8aGrCBtC AEkST8kmmmBQkdnkigHtGYan4oXjb6vYpPWAgUyA= X-Sasl-enc: qBv9fHEDBUAokAqF1Nn2+u3wlI1JrNq/n1Q0AbqPfxtI 1311589249 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-174-109-037-078.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.37.78]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 49BA5413475 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:20:49 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:20:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: Face: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1311589249.109434.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f537a390574331e65931a1f407e1eab0 On Sunday, July 24 at 09:49 (+1000), Adam Carter said: > Summary; > Copied / from sda3 to sdb3 > Updated the fstab in the new disk (/dev/sdb3 / > btrfs noatime,compress=lzo 0 0) > Updated the kernel line's root=/dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb3 in grub.conf, > but left the root (hd0,0) as it is. So, kernel is loaded from sda but > init should run from sdb. > When booting the kernel successfully mounts /dev/sdb3 as root fs > Then the system halts at one of the freeing memory messages, but I > assume the problem is that init isn't executed from /dev/sdb3 I wouldn't assume. If init isn't executed you should get an explicit error from the kernel: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to the kernel.