Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot boot multipartitioned installation

[Martoni <shieldfire@gmail.com>]

Are you sure you have the kernel directly in the root?
Looks like this is they you've defined it in the files....

/martin s


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:38:52 -0000, Michael Kintzios
<michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I just fitted a new ATA drive (hdb) in my box and thought of doing the
> best thing for it - install Gentoo 2004.3 :-)
> 
> I used the following partitioning scheme which spreads across both hda &
> hdb.  Boot is ext2, the rest are reiserfs - straight forward stuff.
> Once I chroot into it I get:
> 
>   # df -h
>   Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>   /dev/hdb7             393M   43M  350M  11% /
>   none                  393M   43M  350M  11% /sys
>   none                  393M   43M  350M  11% /dev
>   none                  393M   43M  350M  11% /dev/pts
>   /dev/hdb1              46M  4.4M   39M  11% /boot
>   /dev/hdb2             102M   33M   70M  32% /tmp
>   /dev/hdb3             3.9G   50M  3.8G   2% /var
>   /dev/hdb5             6.6G  861M  5.7G  13% /usr
>   /dev/hdb6             1.6G   33M  1.6G   2% /home
>   /dev/hda7             3.1G  421M  2.7G  14% /var/tmp
>   /dev/hda8             306M   36M  270M  12% /lib
>   none                  393M   43M  350M  11% /dev/shm
> 
> After I installed a stage three 2004.3 profile I compiled a kernel
> (2.6.9-r9 from gentoo-dev sources) and tried to boot into my new system.
> Grub launches and mounts hdb7.  Then it fails with the following kernel
> panic error:
> 
>   ReiserFS: hdb7: Using r5 hash to sort names
>   VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
>   Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed.
>   Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.
>   Try passing init= option to kernel.
> 
> This is my fstab:
> 
>   /dev/hdb1               /boot           ext2            noauto,noatime
> 1 1
>   /dev/hdb7               /               reiserfs        noatime
> 0 0
>   /dev/hda6               none            swap            sw
> 0 0
> 
>   /dev/hdb2               /tmp            reiserfs        noatime
> 0 0
>   /dev/hdb3               /var            reiserfs        noatime
> 0 0
>   /dev/hdb5               /usr            reiserfs        noatime
> 0 0
>   /dev/hdb6               /home           reiserfs        noatime
> 0 0
> 
>   /dev/hda7               /var/tmp        reiserfs        noatime
> 0 0
>   /dev/hda8               /lib            reiserfs        noatime
> 0 0
> 
>   /dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         noauto,ro
> 0 0
>   /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto
> 0 0
> 
>   # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
>   none                    /proc           proc            defaults
> 0 0
> 
>   none                    /dev/shm        tmpfs           defaults
> 0 0
> 
> I cannot for the life of me understand what's wrong.  Why isn't
> /sbin/init loaded into memory?  I've checked /etc/inittab and there's
> nothing wrong with it.
> 
> This is my grub.conf:
> 
>   title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.9-gentoo-r9
>   root (hd1,0)
>   kernel /kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hdb7
> 
> I've sought help here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=262302
> but none of the suggestions helped me to solve it.  I don't know what
> else to try.  Could it be my partitioning scheme, paths or access
> rights?  I've tried different configurations of 2.6.9-r9 (just in case)
> but the same error occurs.
> 
> Any ideas?  How can I troubleshoot it?  What "init= option" is it asking
> for?
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
> 
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Regards,

Martin S

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