From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N0gMU-0002gL-Mk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:56:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27340E0781; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com (mail-pw0-f47.google.com [209.85.160.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8ACDE0781 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:56:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj10 with SMTP id 10so1211749pwj.26 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:56:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=NVcHCoQve/QGE1ckEVC+HitLa6MrPgiZf+tM7wlbjsA=; b=gUSANUIueaEeobDZmPquDVDS3D+bsc+XdOtX2acJzqywLJucXce3pC9kxgj2lnb5LX vx83nyPNmrIIoOVbH07DLjRXWZ2wxdiOSvaPyxh+v2FPZkL97RWV+hznpre5sI6IPL5M 0PfSPK9IbwaXKQBQP3+4kUM2a4FrgqHMG2MTU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=C0lv4JM0LuqAhKRczaycSI+uoHTIMxuavOqKQZ7520z7h+fcfh+FSVZ0Kj8zNjs0FM XFCgJKecfEJqSdC5bw3LFGm3KgB0AMplO9zZvteilSvy2NTLP1P7vKa2Xeu6iTY1Gpt9 Ebi2oBaYnE52HLnpzaOx6os6O1HIa48axOG88= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.55.8 with SMTP id d8mr534217wfa.288.1256151400449; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:56:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:56:40 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff From: Maxim Wexler To: gentoo-user Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: a999c4ef-b304-4388-8b8f-32c79acaaa60 X-Archives-Hash: e4c7ee55a19f84ed4247ed8d7c77292c as a follow up go here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13560 Virtually identical problem. Check out the screen pic. Just like mine, save for the hardware and fs differences. mw On 10/21/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Did linux#make menuconfig followed by linux# make && make > modules_install on the .2.6.30-gentoo-r7 sources. And copied over the > new kernel and rebooted. > > The kernel panicked. The relevant messages are: > > <...> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, > Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed > Warning: unable to open an initial console > Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to > kernel. > Pid: 1. comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-gentoo-r7 #2 > Call Trace: > [] ? printk+0xf/0x11 > [] panic+0x39/0xd4 > [] init_post+0x13c/0x13e > [] kernel_init+0x148/0x152 > [] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x152 > [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > > > So far I've tried adding 'init=/bin/bash' and 'init=/sbin/init' to the > command line. No help. Someone in a forum suggested chrooting and > emerging sysvinit. But that's already installed. > > There's a million hits on google for this error message with about as > many solutions. > > Assuming it has something to do with my kernel config, I tried running > $diff -y on the two configs but at approx. 2600 lines per file I'm > going to need some advice on what to zero in on. > > I tried to keep the new config as same as the old. But there's a lot > of new features, weird stuff like CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS=y and the new > decompression protocol. > > > Maxim >