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Yes

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Registered: 2008-03-29

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My first attempt installing, booting fails with Kernel Panic

I just fininshed installing Arch, rebooted, and got this:

:: Loading initramfs
Cannot find default font
IP-Config: no device to configure
Waiting 0 s before mounting root device...
kinit: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly
kinit: init not found!
Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

I also have Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.10 installed on the same hard drive, so I didn't install Grub via the Arch Installer.  Is that what the problem is, or is it something else?

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

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Re: My first attempt installing, booting fails with Kernel Panic

If you don't have grub pointing at the right place and loading your kernel26.img you can get those kind of errors.  What do you have in your /boot/grub/menu.lst in Ubuntu-- I'm assuming that's where it is if you didn't install the arch grub??

It would also depend on correctly setting up your initial config files in your install.  Could be lots of stuff.

Last edited by bgc1954 (2008-03-29 17:19:19)

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Yes

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Re: My first attempt installing, booting fails with Kernel Panic

I followed the Beginners Guide Wiki for setting up the config files.  I've installed it fine in a virtual machine before, so I'm pretty sure every thing's good.  I'll go back and check them now, though.

Here's my Arch entry in menu.lst:

title        Arch Linux
root        (hd0,9)
kernel         /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda10 ro quiet vga=0x0318
initrd         /kernel26.img

The Arch /boot partition is on sda10.

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

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Re: My first attempt installing, booting fails with Kernel Panic

Here's my Arch entry in menu.lst:

title        Arch Linux
root        (hd0,9)
kernel         /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda10 ro quiet vga=0x0318
initrd         /kernel26.img

The Arch /boot partition is on sda10.

Try putting /boot before /vmluz and /kernel (/boot/vmluzblah, etc); I think that otherwise it's trying to find those files in the root directory of your Arch partition.  Also, remove the quiet and vga= for now.  Keep it as vanilla as possible until you get it working .

ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

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Re: My first attempt installing, booting fails with Kernel Panic

I followed the Beginners Guide Wiki for setting up the config files.  I've installed it fine in a virtual machine before, so I'm pretty sure every thing's good.  I'll go back and check them now, though.

Here's my Arch entry in menu.lst:

title        Arch Linux
root        (hd0,9)
kernel         /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda10 ro quiet vga=0x0318
initrd         /kernel26.img

The Arch /boot partition is on sda10.

I may have misunderstood you but it sounds like you have a seperate partition for /boot ?  If this is the case then I think you need to change the root= kernel parameter to point to the partition where the rest of the system is.  The kernel panic is because it has mounted /dev/sda10 as / and is looking for the init binary to bring up the system.  if /dev/sda10 is just /boot then it clearly can't find init, resulting in a kernel panic.

I would also agree with the above post, drop the quiet and vga calls until you have a booting system.

Last edited by ghostHack (2008-03-29 22:33:14)

Yes

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Re: My first attempt installing, booting fails with Kernel Panic

Thanks ghostHach, changing the root to /dev/sda9 worked.

Thanks

Last edited by Yes (2008-03-29 23:07:49)