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 1QlG3Y-00058n-18 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:58:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76BD621C0DF; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:58:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A5821C02A for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:57:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3E801804A9 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:57:14 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:57:08 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init Message-ID: <20110725085708.62f566a8@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs37 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/V82qnOiedq6l3HV45iIKQQT"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 964b6598ac14be639831bf3d4dced243 --Sig_/V82qnOiedq6l3HV45iIKQQT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3D/bin/sh" to your kernel options, which should drop you straight into a shell. --=20 Neil Bothwick "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." (Albert Einstein) --Sig_/V82qnOiedq6l3HV45iIKQQT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk4tIdkACgkQum4al0N1GQNf5ACgjDNYJ/w4Win5ZB5qYess6Hgl wFoAoJ0Q5GpXGIqdAjssuV8K/OWcA93o =PKVv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/V82qnOiedq6l3HV45iIKQQT--