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AdamskiAirsoft

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Registered: 2006-07-24

Posts: 33

"Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init" on new install

Just tried to install the most recent version of Arch Linux, and recieved this error after install. I auto-partioned at my whole drive. Here are the two preceding lines of output I am given.

kinit: Cannot open root device sda3(8,3)
kinit: init not found

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init" on new install

See this post a few down from yours;)
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37397

Hopefully this gets resolved soon as it can turn away a lot of new potental users.

Last edited by somairotevoli (2007-09-16 02:37:32)

Shadin

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Registered: 2007-07-22

Posts: 11

Re: "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init" on new install

Same thing happens to me when trying to install to my Pentium III box using the latest ISO.  I'll try appending legacyide like the other post suggests, as it's an older box I use for my Linux tinkering.

AdamskiAirsoft

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Registered: 2006-07-24

Posts: 33

Re: "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init" on new install

I'd beware using the IDE Legacy boot option. I just tried it as a possible fix, and it's made my hard drive no longer bootable.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37418