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energiya

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Registered: 2007-03-03

Posts: 29

Install from HDD

Could this be done using a FAT32 partition with some data already on it? I remember it worked for Ubuntu on all the computers I've tried. It seems on Arch I get kernel panic (couldn't mount root(0,0)), my guess because of the vfat. Anyway confused by the fact that prior to the kernel panic, it tries to mount all my partitions using sda ? I have hda...

I tried both with my lilo and a gujin floppy (couldn't even start). Lilo gave me

Warning: The initial RAM disk is too big to fit between the kernel and
   the 15M-16M memory hole.  It will be loaded in the highest memory as
   though the configuration file specified "large-memory" and it will
   be assumed that the BIOS supports memory moves above 16M.
Added archCD ?

EDIT:
I have formated a partition hda10 to ext2 and I get the exact same error:

No files found to copy in /config directory on media disk
Looking for new packages to install in /packages directory on media /dev/sda6 (*)
IP-Config: no devices to configure
kinit:  Cannot open root device hda (0,0) (?)
kinit: init not found!
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

(*) = it goes from 1 to 8, that is all my partitions but the SWAP one. I have 1xNTFS, 2xFAT32, 1xEXT2 (the one used to boot), 2xXFS, 1xSWAP
(?) = don't remember exactly... I had to write it all on paper

Is this a bug?

Last edited by energiya (2007-03-05 08:40:55)

noriko

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Registered: 2006-06-09

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Re: Install from HDD

if seems to be mounting sda, that more than liekly means the devices are  sda ...
at the boot menu add break=y to the kernle line
then when it break during boot... issue the command
echo /dev/sd*  and or /dev/hd*
that should confirm where the devices actually are.

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energiya

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Registered: 2007-03-03

Posts: 29

Re: Install from HDD

I added "ide-legacy" to the kernel line and that gave me hda instead of sda (I have an older computer using PATA not SATA). I have now observed that after udev I get "No logical volume found" (I think is volume) and other errors. It scrolls to fast to see exactly.