Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

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

Does /dev/sda1 genuinely contain / and not for example /boot?

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