kernel panic - no init found. solution wont be typical

kazzmir · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2004 Posts: 50

I have searched for hours, google and gentoo and all my attempts at fixing this have failed.

I had a 2.4.23 kernel. I added in drm and tdfx support and rebooted. The kernel panicked at the end with "kernel panic - no init found. try passing init= to lilo". Right before that, i saw messages about not being able to create /dev/ide0/host0/bus0/disc. It kinda seems like the root partition is not being mounted, but I cant figure out why. It is an ext3 filesystem and I have run fsck dozens of times on it. The strange part is I can boot 2.4.20 just fine. I also tried 2.4.24 and got the same problems with 2.4.23.

Solutions I have already tried:
pass init=/sbin/init
pass init=linuxrc
enable multi-mode as the default in the kernel

The disk is Maxtor 80g ultra ata/133. any help is appreciated

spb · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:28 pm Post subject:

Are you missing some driver from your 2.4.23 config? IIRC ext3 is enabled by default, so I assume you've got that. Check that all the drivers you had enabled in 2.4.20 are still enabled in the newer kernels.

vdboor · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:17 pm Post subject:

If you run "make mrproper", your /usr/src/linux/.config file will be removed..

If you use the "genkernel --config" script, it might be a good idea to duplicate your configuration in /etc/kernels.
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kazzmir · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2004 Posts: 50

i loaded the saved config file from 2.4.20, which i emerged and built with genkernel. 2.4.24 now boots up fine, but 2.4.23 was booting up before i added drm and tdfx. Now I guess I have to go through and figure out which module it cares about

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io- · n00b Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Arizona

any luck on figuring that missing module out?

I just setup a fresh gentoo system , 2.4.24 kernel manually configured. I followed all the steps in the install.html file about manually setting up a kernel and I'm getting the exact same error as you on bootup. all my hardware is detected just fine though, and my /etc/fstab file and lilo.conf file are setup correctly too. I haven't run into this setting up gentoo before until now

this was my first stage3 install though!