From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F8hu7-0005EA-Fq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:54:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1DHrTUF020397; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:53:29 GMT Received: from dns.ultratux.net (ultratux.xs4all.nl [80.126.98.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1DHmxHL027623 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:48:59 GMT Received: from morpheus.kijkduin ([10.42.42.142]) by dns.ultratux.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1F8hop-0000le-00 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:48:59 +0100 Message-ID: <43F0C696.6010801@ultratux.org> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:49:10 +0100 From: Maarten User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050824) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo References: <43EFC48B.90207@planet.nl> <342e1090602121828x51e0e17el86401335d70be621@mail.gmail.com> <7573e9640602130902n443db19erf24b0e8cbedbac1f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640602130902n443db19erf24b0e8cbedbac1f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a5ee88c1-9bed-4cb1-a0ee-89b3282ab29f X-Archives-Hash: ba72c40270e8ef8fe496c7878b996248 Richard Fish wrote: >>Now, after rebooting, it really went straight, with text menu. It >>starts loading really fast the system,but all of a sudden, a "Kernel >>Panic" says: >> >>Warning - Unable to open an initial console >>Kernel panic - not suncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel > > > This message usually means you are missing /dev/console on your root filesystem. That warning, yes. But the error right after that means what it says: No init found, ie. it has mounted a filesystem (else you get another error-: Kernel panic - cannot mount root partition) but it is unable to find 'init' there. >>From that, one can deduce the OP probably pointed the kernel to the wrong root partition (ie. /boot, or /usr, etc.) Maarten > Boot from the live CD, mount your root, and do: > > cp -a /dev/console /dev/null /dev/zero /mnt/gentoo/dev/ > > -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list