From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F8wnJ-00030N-Ll for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:48:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1E9kC2v023933; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:46:12 GMT Received: from lmfilto01.st1.spray.net (lmfilto01.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.65]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1E9e8Cr017008 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:40:08 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lmfilto01.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 248AA3A918A for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:18:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmcodec06.st1.spray.net ([212.78.203.82]) by localhost (lmfilto01.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.32]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05143-05 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:18:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmcodec06.st1.spray.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cmcodec06.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with SMTP id B26CB10D681 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:18:18 +0000 (GMT) Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=lycos.co.uk; h=From:Subject; b=H2F8dBp2yJdEvBKD82V5w2C6zIprGpnsnNg9SGT6oxNOk5nmPvZp0CLnYVf4aqQDjP0aIBOZvF+Hre+OzUzyysASpZYSNcpT/MTOyHU6GQBw1R9cGcI5NMU5beySBMx0Emo2VFG4wRiq8hFLskioZUM8LuA3/PPo3D8GKVcMcnw=; From: "Michael Kintzios" To: Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:18:01 -0000 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <43F0C696.6010801@ultratux.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at spray.net X-Archives-Salt: c57aef6a-1ba6-431c-9f4a-f1e380946484 X-Archives-Hash: 6bd37e51ef7dd5448fa53c156d470eff > -----Original Message----- > From: Maarten [mailto:gentoo@ultratux.org] > Sent: 13 February 2006 17:49 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the > installation of Gentoo > > > Richard Fish wrote: > >>Now, after rebooting, it really went straight, with text menu. It > >>starts loading really fast the system,but all of a sudden, a "Kernel > >>Panic" says: > >> > >>Warning - Unable to open an initial console > >>Kernel panic - not suncing: No init found. Try passing > init= option to kernel > > > > > > This message usually means you are missing /dev/console on > your root filesystem. > > That warning, yes. > But the error right after that means what it says: No init > found, ie. it > has mounted a filesystem (else you get another error-: Kernel panic - > cannot mount root partition) but it is unable to find 'init' there. > From that, one can deduce the OP probably pointed the kernel to the > wrong root partition (ie. /boot, or /usr, etc.) . . or, on a multipartition installation they've missed out some rather important directory which needs to be in / for it to boot, like e.g. /sbin. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list