From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user-return-95286-arch-gentoo-user=gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 10144 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2004 11:24:01 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 8 Dec 2004 11:24:01 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CbzvN-0007T9-Ff for arch-gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 11:24:01 +0000 Received: (qmail 21377 invoked by uid 89); 8 Dec 2004 11:23:42 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-user-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6682 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2004 11:23:42 +0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=gc3ERhB1ggkiSHxWZfjJrbhgflUdo7wRd7oUY6ap5NTvl2gis39TfSixRT8YXH/T3pZvFA0lt8MJEpv9YB7tlkUFM7vdjfCi+QTDERKR7rL5FV1J0WFeIpwj+8ccXOq4DYUaCK4XHpVOmguFOQu/uUw3jY72jNeyDE+HejeW/wM= Message-ID: <7ad4c500412080323754fde41@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:23:42 +0100 From: Martoni <shieldfire@gmail.com> Reply-To: Martoni <shieldfire@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <2348FF22DDBAD411BCD70002A51304480579F591@BCV0X134EXC0001> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <2348FF22DDBAD411BCD70002A51304480579F591@BCV0X134EXC0001> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot boot multipartitioned installation X-Archives-Salt: f035afdc-972b-4a24-913c-d09e315fb338 X-Archives-Hash: 3bf954686d9e9b50da58df6203d3a10b 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list