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djseomun

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From: Durham, NC

Registered: 2008-10-19

Posts: 35

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Kernel panic after converting from ext3 to ext4?

I'm running Arch 64 on a Lenovo ThinkPad R61.  I did a pacman -Syu this morning and upgraded to 2.6.28-ARCH, among other things.  I rebooted to verify that nothing went amiss with the kernel upgrade.  Indeed, there appeared to be no problems.  I then followed some directions on converting my partition from ext3 to ext4.  (I did a tune2fs and then a fsck.)  After finishing the fsck, I rebooted to find the following error message:

kinit: Cannot open root device sda2(8,2)
kinit: init not found
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

I rebooted twice and got the same result.

What should I do?

xduugu

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Registered: 2008-10-16

Posts: 292

Re: Kernel panic after converting from ext3 to ext4?

you have to run mkinitcpio after the conversion

ugaciaka

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From: Italy

Registered: 2008-07-06

Posts: 140

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Re: Kernel panic after converting from ext3 to ext4?

see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38136

i had this prolbem but i resolved

Last edited by ugaciaka (2009-01-16 17:20:06)

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