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 1N0gWw-0004Fo-GO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:07:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3B8AE07A4; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:07:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C275FE07A4 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:07:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-173-71-201-218.clppva.fios.verizon.net [173.71.201.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98C8367F82 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:07:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4ADF5BE6.2070506@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:07:18 -0400 From: Jonathan Callen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090902) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7953aa33-cb95-4d79-8386-01d947bb1d46 X-Archives-Hash: 028b061e9eb4554135c9e9832ba99406 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Jonathan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrfW+UACgkQOypDUo0oQOo/NgCgq1C7LyfDRiEAFRiuqq9Me+5Q EyMAnjvpfvmfcFFlczPJb7SruygZF/lN =KMh5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----