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Trevorofmolino

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Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 37

kinit kernel panic (cannot boot) SOLVED

I have installed and reinstalled arch to sda drive and each time I keep coming up wit
attempting to create root device '801'
/bin/mknod "/dev/sda1" b 8 1
/init : 1: /bin/mknod: not found

kinit: cannot open root device sda1 (8,1)
kinit: init not found
kernel panic

my grub is
General configuration:

timeout     5
default      0

#(0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=hda3 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

my fstab is
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1

Last edited by Trevorofmolino (2009-02-26 01:39:02)

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: kinit kernel panic (cannot boot) SOLVED

What's in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf?

Trevorofmolino

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Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 37

Re: kinit kernel panic (cannot boot) SOLVED

mkinitcpio.conf is commented out but the following
modules ='' pata_amd ata_generic sata_nv"
binaries = ""
files = ""
hooks = "base udev autodetect pata scsi sata keymap filesystem"
my sata drive (sdb) is not in fstab because I have data on it and need to transfer it to sda and repartition it the sda drive is eide.

Trevorofmolino

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Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 37

Re: kinit kernel panic (cannot boot) SOLVED

after reading about mkinitcpio and finding that ide and sata were in the hooks I gave up and reformatted the sdb (sata) drive and reloaded arch and rebooted     everything works fine the first time. Now I get to reinstall all programs and settings