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manouchk

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 313

[solved] kernel panic during boot on new install

Hi,

I got a new harddrive and I'm trying to install archlinux using the chroot method. During I got a kernel panic.At boot, it ends up by the following messages:

ReiserFs: sda2 : Using r5 hash to sort names
kinit: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
sh: root=/dev/sda2: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted kill init!

Some more informations:

more /etc/fstab

/dev/sda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda7 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/sda6 /mnt/root_mandriva reiserfs defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

more /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
MODULES=""
BINARIES=""
FILES=""
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems"

By the way, I'm installing from mandriva which configures my harddrive using hda* and not sda* like archlinux. From mandriva, I got:

df -h
Sys. de fich.         Tail. Occ. Disp. %Occ. Monté sur
/dev/hda6              11G  2,2G  8,6G  21% /
/dev/hda1             184M   20M  155M  11% /boot
/dev/hda7             208G  129G   80G  62% /home
/dev/hda2              13G  2,9G  9,2G  25% /mnt/root_archlinux
/dev/sda5             6,9G  6,6G  277M  97% /mnt/tmp

Last edited by manouchk (2009-02-09 02:35:22)

manouchk

Member

Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 313

Re: [solved] kernel panic during boot on new install

Well, I just solved my problem by deleting my new installation and cloning the old root partition of my former archlinux installation using rsync and it went pretty smooth! I modified /etc/fstab and that was all!