From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:57:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110725085708.62f566a8@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=wYCEjvGYRAnQ0NYckiDY5zYp5gP8LaoyOTjZ+v4K=s0ZVQg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:49:21 +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
> 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
Doesn't the kernel say something along the lines of "unable to run" init"
when it can't find it. You can test whether it is getting as far as
trying to run init by adding "init=/bin/sh" to your kernel options, which
should drop you straight into a shell.
--
Neil Bothwick
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the the universe."
(Albert Einstein)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-25 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-23 23:49 [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init Adam Carter
2011-07-24 20:08 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-07-24 20:11 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-07-24 23:29 ` Adam Carter
2011-07-25 7:57 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-07-25 10:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Adam Carter
2011-07-25 11:04 ` Adam Carter
2011-07-25 11:17 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-25 10:20 ` Albert Hopkins
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