Bug#396469: Installation report: failed install on Toshiba Satellite
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 23:23, Bill McNeill wrote:
> Machine: Toshiba Satellite
> Processor: Intel Celeron 2.80 GHz
Strange, I have a quite similar machine which I reinstalled very recently
and which works perfectly (Toshiba Satellite A40, Mobile Pentium 4, 2.8
GHz).
> Comments/Problems:
> I did an install from CD taking all the defaults. When rebooting I get
> a Segmentation Fault followed by the error message
You don't say what causes the segfault. We'll need all the information
that you can see on the screen when it fails to help find the cause.
Can you still scroll upwards after the segfault (using shift-PgUp)? If so,
the lines immediately before the segfault (at least 5 or so) and the
lines of the segfault itself would be interesting to see.
> <6> Journalled Block device driver loaded
> pivot_root: No such file or directory
> /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
In general these messages mean that the initrd fails to load the drivers
needed to access the hard disk, OR, if there are multiple disk
controllers in the system, that device names are assigned differently
during the boot than during the installation.
Are you dropped into a debug shell when the failure occurs? If you are,
check if the modules needed are loaded (cat /proc/modules), check if any
disk devices are listed in /dev/.
Cheers,
FJP
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