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hanman

Member

Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 22

*sigh* kernel panic :(

i just upgraded to the current kernel (2.6.21.5-1) and now i get this:

:: Loading Initramfs
/config: 55: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

when i try to boot the fall back kernel, it gets further, but panics after a kinit is supposed to start.i can't remember exactly what it said, but i remember a command that said something like:

mknod /dev/root b 8 3

and then an error about can't mount (8,3). while i have quite a few drives in my system, i don't have THAT many! sorry about the vagueness of that last error, but i didn't write it down.  i booted to the install disc and chrooted into my install and downgraded to the previous kernel version.  this yielded the same errors.  i got into my system by booting to the install disc and passing root=/dev/sda3 to the kernel.  everything seemed to boot normally after that.  here are my various conf files:

#
# /etc/rc.conf
#

LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="America/Chicago"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

MOD_BLACKLIST=()
MODULES=(r8169 slhc ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-ac97-codec snd-intel8x0 soundcore)
USELVM="no"

HOSTNAME="bahamut"
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0)
gateway="default gw 192.168.1.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

DAEMONS=(gensplash syslog-ng network netfs crond sshd dbus hal samba vmware)

#
# /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
#
MODULES="pata_amd pata_pdc2027x ata_generic sata_nv"

BINARIES=""

FILES=""

HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata usb usbinput keymap filesystems fbsplash"
FBTHEMES="darch'
FBRES="1024x768"

i'm not using fbsplash, atm, so i guess i should remove those...

any help would be greatly appreciated.

hanman

Member

Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 22

Re: *sigh* kernel panic :(

i'm an idiot

i had this:

FBTHEMES="darch'

instead of this:

FBTHEMES="darch"

i didn't see it till i was proof reading my post