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jskier

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From: Minnesota, USA

Registered: 2003-07-30

Posts: 383

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[Solved] Can't get out of this kernel panic

I've tried everything to get one of my machines up after running pacman leading to a crash, and reboot that merely boots up kernel panics. Using a rescue CD and downgrading the kernel doesn't work (pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel26-...- tried 3 different ones). fstab is fine. Tried passing rootfstype=jfs via grub. Also ran jfs_fcsk to ensure the partition is in working mountable order. Still init fails and kernel panics.

What else could I possibly do to get this system up? Thanks for any help.

Last edited by jskier (2007-05-01 23:04:04)

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chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: [Solved] Can't get out of this kernel panic

What message do you get when it panics?

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jskier

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From: Minnesota, USA

Registered: 2003-07-30

Posts: 383

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Re: [Solved] Can't get out of this kernel panic

kinit: Cannot open root device dev(0,0)
kinit: init not found!
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Following the broken bootloader wiki page seemed to work better when using pacman -U kernel...

Last edited by jskier (2007-05-01 23:03:40)

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