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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 13:10:18 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=wYCFSDcJVCFpgcVMOBT=JiGTcHTsS-rcFMJEeb6bBz4ksRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3d52bec-8e82-e306-e4c4-063d7b6f5355@sys-concept.com>

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On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 2:24 AM <thelma@sys-concept.com> wrote:

> When I try to boot I'm getting an error:
>
> "Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing  init=
> option to kernel."
>
> I am running very low on disk space, I think.
> I've tried to boot strap the system and remove some files but boot strap
> is not working.  When I boot from minimal-install gentoo CD I try:
>
> swapon /dev/sda3
> swapon: /dev/sda3: read swap header failed: Input/output error
>
>
On my boxes with swap files, kernel 5.7.0 barfs;

# file /swapfile
/swapfile: Linux/i386 swap file (new style), version 1 (4K pages), size
2097151 pages, no label
# swapon -a
swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument

I havent looked into it yet as they're rarely used at all. What kernel are
you using?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-04  3:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-03 16:24 [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found thelma
2020-06-03 16:31 ` Dale
2020-06-03 16:52   ` thelma
2020-06-03 16:57     ` tedheadster
2020-06-03 17:12       ` thelma
2020-06-03 17:15         ` tedheadster
2020-06-03 17:28           ` Dale
2020-06-03 17:51             ` Michael
2020-06-03 18:35             ` thelma
2020-06-03 18:10     ` J. Roeleveld
2020-06-03 18:06 ` J. Roeleveld
2020-06-03 18:38   ` thelma
2020-06-03 18:53     ` J. Roeleveld
2020-06-04  3:10 ` Adam Carter [this message]
2020-06-06  5:54   ` Adam Carter

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