From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot with kernel 3.5.7: init not being started
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:11:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121110111110.GA2859@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509D94C7.2040204@binarywings.net>
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:41:59AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 09.11.2012 19:46, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 07:12:09PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
> >> Am 09.11.2012 18:47, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> >>> Hi, everyone.
> >>> I recently built a kernel 3.5.7, but my system doesn't boot with it.
> >>> More precisely, it appears not to be starting init, since the line
> >>> containing "INIT" and "version 2.88" is missing from my console display.
> >>> The booting process did get as far as mounting my root partition RO.
> >>> My system boots fine with 3.3.8.
> >>> In my 3.5.7. .config, I've checked obvious things like having the ext3
> >>> driver built in.
> >>> Would somebody please give me some idea what I might be doing wrong.
> >>> Thanks!
> >> Can you post us your config?
> > OK, here it is:
> [...]
> Works for me. For a certain definition of "works". It boots but cannot
> mount tmpfs for /run. After that, openrc throws me to a login screen
> with a read-only root partition.
Ah, tmpfs! Yes I need that, too. As soon as I enable tmpfs in my
kernel, it boots up properly. :-) Thanks very much indeed for the tip!
I wonder why your system got further than mine with this kernel.
> Only changes I made was changing the CPU type to intel, adding a few
> crypto algorithms and adding btrfs in case the boot process got far
> enough to try /etc/init.d/localmount. Root is ext4.
> What init system are you using?
I'm using openrc.
It would seem that configuring and building a kernel is an activity for
experienced users, not beginners. ;-(
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-10 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-09 17:47 [gentoo-user] Can't boot with kernel 3.5.7: init not being started Alan Mackenzie
2012-11-09 18:12 ` Florian Philipp
2012-11-09 18:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-11-09 23:41 ` Florian Philipp
2012-11-10 11:11 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2012-11-10 11:56 ` Dale
2012-11-10 13:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-11-10 13:37 ` Bruce Hill
2012-11-10 20:40 ` Dale
2012-11-10 12:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-11-10 20:45 ` Dale
2012-11-11 12:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-11-11 15:45 ` Dale
2012-11-10 13:01 ` Florian Philipp
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