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The_Great_Sephiroth
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 Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:29 pm Post subject: Hanging at initramfs in VirtualBox... |
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I have been working on a slight problem I have had since installing Gentoo in VBox under Debian Wheezy 64bit. Install went fine and I have a fairly simple layout, but now I cannot boot into the OS.
- /dev/sda1 - BIOS
- /dev/sda2 - /boot
- /dev/sda3 - /var/log
- /dev/sda4 - <swap>
- /dev/sda5 - /usr
- /dev/sda6 - /
I followed the x86_64 guide to the letter and did create the initramfs due to having a separate /usr partition. However, it gets to "Loading initramfs..." and hangs. I did search and tried several things (adapted to my situation) from other threads here, but cannot get booted. I used "-march=core2" since this system has a C2D in it. I also removed AMD settings from processor features in the kernel since I do not own an AMD processor. I have done that on my Debian OS as well, and have done so for years, so I doubt that is it.
So what should I look at first? |
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guitou
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:48 am Post subject: |
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Hi, I guess fails mounting root part, most probably due to a missing required lib.
If you made a custom initramfs, see below, my files list (may contain useless files, but may also help you finding out what you missed, provided I guessed well)
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# directory structure
dir /proc 755 0 0
dir /usr 755 0 0
dir /bin 755 0 0
dir /sys 755 0 0
dir /var 755 0 0
dir /lib 755 0 0
dir /lib64 755 0 0
dir /sbin 755 0 0
dir /mnt 755 0 0
dir /mnt/root 755 0 0
dir /etc 755 0 0
dir /root 700 0 0
dir /dev 755 0 0
# busybox
file /bin/busybox /bin/busybox 755 0 0
# libraries required by /sbin/fsck.ext4 and /sbin/fsck
file /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 755 0 0
file /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 755 0 0
file /lib64/libext2fs.so.2 /lib64/libext2fs.so.2 755 0 0
file /lib64/libext2fs.so.2.4 /lib64/libext2fs.so.2.4 755 0 0
file /lib64/libcom_err.so.2 /lib64/libcom_err.so.2 755 0 0
file /lib64/libpthread.so.0 /lib64/libpthread.so.0 755 0 0
file /lib64/libblkid.so.1 /lib64/libblkid.so.1 755 0 0
file /lib64/libuuid.so.1 /lib64/libuuid.so.1 755 0 0
file /lib64/libe2p.so.2 /lib64/libe2p.so.2 755 0 0
file /lib64/libc.so.6 /lib64/libc.so.6 755 0 0
file /lib64/libmount.so.1 /lib64/libmount.so.1.1.0 755 0 0
file /sbin/udevadm /usr/bin/udevadm 755 0 0
file /sbin/fsck /sbin/fsck 755 0 0
file /sbin/fsck.ext2 /sbin/fsck.ext2 755 0 0
file /sbin/fsck.ext3 /sbin/fsck.ext3 755 0 0
file /sbin/fsck.ext4 /sbin/fsck.ext4 755 0 0
#file /sbin/fsck.vfat /usr/sbin/fsck.vfat 755 0 0
# our init script
file /init /usr/src/initramfs/init 755 0 0
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The_Great_Sephiroth
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Everything looks right. I followed the x86_64 guide to the letter (used my own partitioning scheme) and no go. DO I need to edit something with the initramfs to make it mount my partitions? |
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The_Great_Sephiroth
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I have done this several times over and I still cannot get past the initramfs. Is there something I have to configure to tell the initramfs what partitions to mount? I have never had to do this before and do not know how. It always just worked on Debian, RH (back in the day RH, not the current one), Slack, Ubuntu, or the others I played with. I must be missing something but I do not know what. |
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