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Comm n00b
Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 7 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 2:47 pm Post subject: First boot after install |
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Hi All,
I've done a vast search in these forums and on google, but I cant seem to find a solution to solve my problem. I've tried quite a few things, but have resorted back to the original settings layed out in the install guide on this site, however when i boot up and it loads silo fine, but when it starts loading gentoo i get this:
Code: | Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
Press L1-A to return to the boot prom |
My fstab looks like this:
Code: | /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda4 /usr ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda5 /var ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 noatime 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
none /proc/openprom openpromfs defaults 0 0 |
I do have /dev/hda3 as my Wholedisk partition, does this need to be listed in fstab?
My silo.conf is as follows:
Code: | partition = 1
root = /dev/hda4
timeout = 100
image = /boot/kernel-2.4.26
label = linux |
Is there anything wrong here?
Thanks in advance!
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jbwillia Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 108 Location: TN, USA
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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I'm no expert, but I do not see where you loaded root ... are you sure the first line of your fstab should not be:
Code: | /dev/hda1 / ext2 noatime 0 1 |
Here is what my fstab (minus the comments) looks like and it's working great:
Code: | /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda4 /var ext3 noatime 0 2
/dev/sdb1 /home ext3 noatime 0 2
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/openprom openpromfs defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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jbwillia Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 108 Location: TN, USA
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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Also, maybe you did intend to have a separate boot partition which is fine, but if so you willl also need a root partition. The problem looks to me to be from the fact that it cannot access /etc/inittab. If you notice, based on the filesystems you load it has no way of accessing /etc/.
I hope that's helpful. I know others have sure helped me in this forum. |
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Comm n00b
Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 7 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, so should I point silo.conf to /dev/hda1 not /dev/hda4?
Thanks,
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jbwillia Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 108 Location: TN, USA
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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To my understanding, you should set root equal to wherever you've mounted root. Of course when I say root, I mean just plain / ... /usr is where lots of program data goes ... you are definately going to need a root partition as well considering that any directories you don't have explicitly mounted elsewhere will go onto that filesystem. For one /etc where all the configuration information gets stored is on the root filesystem (as well as /lib, /tmp, /bin, /sbin ) .... The problem you're running into is that it can't load init .... init is located in /sbin which you do not have since you have no filesystem to store it in, and init is going to need access to /etc/inittab which it would not have access to either .... I hate to say it but you may have to start over on the install and repartition your disk to include a root partition.
my silo.conf looks like (cross refernce with my fstab above if you like):
Code: | partition = 1
root = /dev/sda1
timeout = 10
image = /boot/kernel-2.4.26
label = linux
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Comm n00b
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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Nice one jbwillia, I set silo.conf to /dev/hda1 instead and its loaded fine.
Thanks again for your help!
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jbwillia Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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No problem, but based on your fstab it looks like you're going to run into more problems later on because for the life of me I don't see how it will save to a root partition. But good luck anyways. |
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Comm n00b
Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 7 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:15 am Post subject: |
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Right, yes i did run into problems, and its annoying me, so I'm gonna do a full re-install, doh!, Oh well. jbwillia, is there any chance you could post or pm me your partition information? (Including sizes) as I want to get it right this time.
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