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.


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