minor issue w lilo and kernel panic

[lughlamfain]

hi there, new to Gentoo but an old hat at other distros-

normally I'm used to a graphical installer, and shame on me for becoming reliant on them-

the thing is I've gone through the install, and now I'm post reboot, and what do I get but a kernel panic
seems it's looking for an init file and suggests that I pass the argument init= to the kernel to fix the issue
/dev/hda1 is / and /boot with reiserfs
I'm running lilo instead of grub (personal choice- I like lilo better and I can optimise it to use a bootsplash just as well as grub can do)
I followed the install handbook to the letter, but it seems there is an issue here not covered, ideas anyone?

[Nerderello]

sounds like you need an initrd loading. Not sure how this is done in lilo (use grub myself), but I've seen this happen when I've forgotten to tell it (grub) about the initrd file that it needs to load.

have fun

Nerderello

[gruven]

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...p=10#doc_chap3

There it is. It is in the handbook for the boot loader setup. It explains how to do it if you used genkernel or if you didn't use genkernel. As far as I know you only NEED an initrd if you use genkernel unless you are using gensplash and then you create your own later and add the initrd when you get that made.

I personally have never used genkernel, I always build my own, so YMMV.

[blackhawk3008]

hi there, new to Gentoo but an old hat at other distros-

normally I'm used to a graphical installer, and shame on me for becoming reliant on them-

the thing is I've gone through the install, and now I'm post reboot, and what do I get but a kernel panic
seems it's looking for an init file and suggests that I pass the argument init= to the kernel to fix the issue
/dev/hda1 is / and /boot with reiserfs
I'm running lilo instead of grub (personal choice- I like lilo better and I can optimise it to use a bootsplash just as well as grub can do)
I followed the install handbook to the letter, but it seems there is an issue here not covered, ideas anyone?

Hello !!
You have to pass root=/dev/ROOT to the kernel argument line in the config file of your bootloader, where ROOT is your root partition of course...
After that, all went to works fine !

[lughlamfain]

Hello !!
You have to pass root=/dev/ROOT to the kernel argument line in the config file of your bootloader, where ROOT is your root partition of course...
After that, all went to works fine !

that was already going on- /dev/hda1 was being passed as the arg (both / and /boot are on hda1)-- the arg that it wants is an init level arg, and that seems (so far) to be the issue...

[lughlamfain]

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...p=10#doc_chap3

There it is. It is in the handbook for the boot loader setup. It explains how to do it if you used genkernel or if you didn't use genkernel. As far as I know you only NEED an initrd if you use genkernel unless you are using gensplash and then you create your own later and add the initrd when you get that made.

I personally have never used genkernel, I always build my own, so YMMV.

this was a build your own as well- no genkernels for me, though I may have to try one and use the lilo initrd= to see if that helps any-- though it may just be having issues with which init level to be running @-- been thinking that maybe the line init=default might work as well, will let others know

[blackhawk3008]

that was already going on- /dev/hda1 was being passed as the arg (both / and /boot are on hda1)-- the arg that it wants is an init level arg, and that seems (so far) to be the issue...

Hello !
Could you post output of :

# df -h

and the section in lilo.conf that match the boot command line to launch the kernel. This could help us to solve your problem

[lughlamfain]

Hello !
Could you post output of :

# df -h

and the section in lilo.conf that match the boot command line to launch the kernel. This could help us to solve your problem

sorry if I can't give you the # df -h output, but I can give you this:

lilo.conf

boot=/dev/hda
prompt
timeout=120
default=gentoo

image=/boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r3
label=gentoo
read-only
root=/dev/hda1
append="video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1024x768-32@85"

the error I had (recompiling kernel to see if that will help--) was:

...
Freeing unused kernel memory: (XXval) freed
Warning:unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic- not syncing: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
<5> Vendor:VBTM

[blackhawk3008]

Could you post your fstab ???
It may be useful for us.
Indeed, the error you have is that the kernel cannot found init script and so cannot continue booting.
Could you say if your kernel is on a separated partition (ie the boot partition) and root of your system is on other one ?
The fstab file (usually placed in /etc) may help us to know where is your root partition... and also solve your problem

[lughlamfain]

Could you post your fstab ???
It may be useful for us.
Indeed, the error you have is that the kernel cannot found init script and so cannot continue booting.
Could you say if your kernel is on a separated partition (ie the boot partition) and root of your system is on other one ?
The fstab file (usually placed in /etc) may help us to know where is your root partition... and also solve your problem

contents of fstab are:

/dev/hda1 / reiserfs defaults,noatime,notail 1 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,rw,user 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hda6 /usr reiserfs defaults,noatime 0 2

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0

hope that can help some- both /root and /boot are both on /
only /usr and /home are on seperate partitions