Kernel panic? I'm panic! (solved)

Jirka · 2007-03-17 17:42:34

Hi,

I'm already hopeless . The second day I'm trying to install Archlinux on my notebook.

I have also downloaded version 0.8 beta as in this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=30549 was written, but I still get just:

IP-Config: no devices to configure
kinit: Unable to mount root fs on device dev(0,0)
kinit: init not found!
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

I really don't know what to do.

Please, kick me to the right way!

Last edited by Jirka (2007-03-17 20:03:00)

newgargamel · 2007-03-17 19:11:39

you can try to install 0.7.2 and then upgrade to Voodoo

fishonadish · 2007-03-17 19:54:21

newgargamel wrote:

you can try to install 0.7.2 and then upgrade to Voodoo

This can be messy because of the change from mkinitrd to mkinitcpio though. I think 0.8 would require less messing around.

Jirka wrote:

kinit: Unable to mount root fs on device dev(0,0)

Do you perhaps have the wrong syntax in your menu.lst?

Could you post your menu.lst here or in the other thread you have going - http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=30928?

Last edited by fishonadish (2007-03-17 19:58:36)

Spadearcher · 2007-03-17 20:01:21

Jirka: Which of the iso's I referred you to did you download to cd? You should have chosen the current (for two cd's -- 1 and 2). With those I loaded Voodoo 0.8 and booted it with no problem after installing from the first cd. (I don't recall that I actually needed the second cd, but I'm not sure.) Again, good luck. It is possible for it to work.

Jirka · 2007-03-17 20:02:29

After two days of installing I have used the LILO instead GRUB and everything is allright!

So it's solved.

Thank to everybody

Last edited by Jirka (2007-03-17 20:02:47)

tomk · 2007-03-17 20:02:32

Can you boot with the fallback initrd image?

paulr · 2007-03-23 23:52:37

As a new Arch user I came across this on the initial post-install upgrade. The problem was fixed by changing the last line of /boot/grub/menu.lst to

initrd /kernel26.img

(was previously initrd26.img, I think)

After that, works like a charm

Feanor · 2007-03-24 10:00:06

I've the same problem of the first post of this thread, my menu.lst is this

title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda1 ro rootfstype=ext3
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

I can't find how to solve this.

Thanks everybody!

JoxBG · 2007-03-25 23:53:45

Feanor wrote:

I've the same problem of the first post of this thread, my menu.lst is this
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda1 ro rootfstype=ext3
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
I can't find how to solve this.
Thanks everybody!

Remove the /boot line in kernel and initrd entries:
Should read:
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda1 ro rootfstype=ext3
initrd /kernel26.img

Jox

Mr.Elendig · 2007-04-04 05:18:46

No, the path is correct, if he dosn't have a seperate /boot partion.
As an example, if he did have a seperate /boot, and /boot was hda1 and / was hda2, then the entry woud be like this:

title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda2 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

The reason for this is that the path to the kernel is relative to the grub root () option.

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Kernel panic? I'm panic! (solved)

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