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twilight-lair
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 Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject: Kernel Panic on boot |
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| I'm trying to install Gentoo on my mac and am using the universal install cd. every time I try to boot from the cd it immediately goes into a kernel panic and says I can't mount root. Does anyone know what this means? |
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JoseJX
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twilight-lair
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Powermac g4. 1 gig of ram |
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JoseJX
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twilight-lair
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:53 am Post subject: |
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I'm booting it from the universal install disc, and here is the error message:
no filesystem could mount mount root, tried: (lists ext2, ext3, etc.)
kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown - block (1,0) |
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JoseJX
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sure the CD was burnt correctly and the ISO has the correct MD5 when you downloaded it? How is the CD Drive attached (internal IDE? SCSI?, USB?)? Are there any error messages before that? Is your CD hardware detected by the kernel?
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twilight-lair
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm pretty sure the CD was burnt correctly, but I can try that again. My CD Drive is Internal, and there are no error messages before that |
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rafel87
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| I've just installed gentoo... and I got the same error :S I |
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JoseJX
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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rafel87:
If you've just installed Gentoo, you probably didn't follow the handbook when compiling your kernel. Make sure that you've run make pmac32_defconfig before configuring your kernel so that the correct IDE drivers are included. If you did a genkernel install, go back to the handbook and make sure that you've followed the directions for configuring yaboot for genkernel.
twilight-lair:
Does the same thing happen with 2006.0? You can use the 2006.0 installcd to install 2006.1 (just boot with 2006.0, then use 2006.1's stage3 instead of 2006.0).
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