[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

[Jonathan Callen <abcd@gentoo.org>]

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Maxim Wexler wrote:
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1,
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console
> Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel.

To me, that looks like /dev/sda1 (which is what the kernel is using as
root=) doesn't contain any of the following:
	/sbin/init
	/etc/init
	/bin/init
	/bin/sh

Noting that the kernel output implied that it was an ext2 filesystem,
that looks like it mounted your /boot as /, which fails as there isn't
any init available on it.

PS:
In case you were wondering how I knew it was /dev/sda1, that's what
"device 8:1" means: the block device with major number 8 and minor
number 1, which happens to be the major:minor assigned to /dev/sda1.

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Jonathan
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