Kernel Panic during Boot

Falcata · 2008-10-15 00:48:49

I had to switch out my current sata hard drive for a pata hard drive. When I went to install arch linux, everything installed fine. However, after running pacman -Syu, my system failed to boot anymore, giving me a message saying "Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel"

I looked around and tried the solutions, by setting init= to /sbin/init, /usr/sbin/init, /bin/init, etc, and none of those worked. I read up on the wiki and tried chrooting into my system, but that failed to work as well.

I read up on the wiki, and found out about the problem with the change in the labelling scheme of pata drives to use the sdX convention, rather than hdX. However, the instructions don't help, because the drives are labeled by UUID, rather than hdX or sdX. What do I do now? I'm stuck using Fedora once again, and the current ATI drivers for Fedora 8 suck. My card is running like it's from 3 or 4 years ago!

Onwards · 2008-10-15 07:39:32

/dev/hdX naming scheme won't work anymore in the new kernel (.27), as I understood it.

sinister99 · 2008-10-15 13:49:12

are you using lilo? there was a new kernel. If you are, you have to run /sbin/lilo after each kernel update

Falcata · 2008-10-15 14:33:33

Actually, I was using grub. Right now, Arch isn't installed. What do I need to do during the install procedure to fix this problem?

Onwards · 2008-10-15 15:05:16

No need to take any extraordinary measures. Just follow the steps as the installer directs.

koch · 2008-10-15 15:21:53

have an eye here before updating your new system...

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56431

Falcata · 2008-10-15 17:13:38

Hmm, I saw that klibc before I installed to the pata drive. I just ran pacman -Rd klibc before upgrading and had no problems. Though, since klibc is a dependency of mkinitcpio, I should try removing the symlink rather than the package itself.

Falcata · 2008-10-16 11:56:09

Okay, I'm making another installation attempt, using the instructions that koch pointed out. If I run into any problems, I'll post them here.

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Kernel Panic during Boot

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