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* [gentoo-user] kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
@ 2009-10-21 18:25 Maxim Wexler
  2009-10-21 18:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Maxim Wexler
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 36+ messages in thread
From: Maxim Wexler @ 2009-10-21 18:25 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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:
 [<c0479986>] ? printk+0xf/0x11
 [<c04798dc>]  panic+0x39/0xd4
 [<c020135z>]  init_post+0x13c/0x13e
 [<c05b62dc>]  kernel_init+0x148/0x152
 [<c05b6194>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x152
 [<c02033cf>]  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



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2009-10-21 18:25 [gentoo-user] kernel panic -- finding proper config diff Maxim Wexler
2009-10-21 18:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Maxim Wexler
2009-10-21 19:07 ` Jonathan Callen
2009-10-21 19:13   ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-21 20:22     ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-21 20:35       ` Albert Hopkins
2009-10-21 20:45   ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-22  1:19     ` walt
2009-10-22  3:28       ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-22  3:37         ` William Kenworthy
2009-10-22  3:45           ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-22 14:18         ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-22 18:17           ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-22 18:29             ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-22 18:36             ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-22 18:53               ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-22 20:43                 ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-22 19:31               ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-22 18:50             ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-24 10:41               ` Stroller
2009-10-22  1:48     ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-22 23:31 ` walt
2009-10-23  0:31   ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-23 16:02   ` walt
2009-10-23 21:57     ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-23 22:54       ` walt
2009-10-24  1:33         ` Richard Marza
2009-10-24  4:05           ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-24  7:44             ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-24  7:44       ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-26  4:52         ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-26  9:10           ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-29  4:38             ` waltdnes
2009-10-29  5:45               ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-29  5:42             ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-23  0:56 ` Jonathan Callen

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