* [gentoo-user] Cannot boot multipartitioned installation
@ 2004-12-08 10:38 Michael Kintzios
2004-12-08 11:23 ` Martoni
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Michael Kintzios @ 2004-12-08 10:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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* Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot boot multipartitioned installation
2004-12-08 10:38 [gentoo-user] Cannot boot multipartitioned installation Michael Kintzios
@ 2004-12-08 11:23 ` Martoni
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Martoni @ 2004-12-08 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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
>
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
--
Regards,
Martin S
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