Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On 3 June 2020 18:52:59 CEST, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
>On 06/03/2020 10:31 AM, Dale wrote:
>> thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
>>> When I try to boot I'm getting an error:
>>>
>>> "Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing 
>init=
>>> option to kernel."
>>>
>>> I am running very low on disk space, I think.
>>> I've tried to boot strap the system and remove some files but boot
>strap
>>> is not working.  When I boot from minimal-install gentoo CD I try:
>>>
>>> swapon /dev/sda3
>>> swapon: /dev/sda3: read swap header failed: Input/output error
>>>
>>> Any solution?
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> Are you sure you are pointing to the right partition for /, root? 
>> That's one common reason for that error.
>> 
>> Dale
>> 
>> :-)  :-) 
>
>I'm sure, here is my backup fstab from this system:
>
>/dev/sda2	        /boot	        ext2	        noauto,noatime	1 2
>/dev/sda3                none           swap            sw             
>0 0
>/dev/sda4		/		ext4		noatime		0 1
>/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom      auto            noauto,user    
>0 0
>
>Sometimes the system boot but most of the time it doesn't.  So I was
>trying to "bootstrap" it to clean up some files.
>
>--
>Thelma

What exactly do you mean with "bootstrap"?

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