Re: Kernel Panic: no init found
Aaron Davies wrote:
>
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> >
> > Aaron Davies wrote:
> >
> > > Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When you boot, does the "Partition check" for that drive list your partition?
> > > > Later, does it say something like "Mounting root partition read-only"? Does it
> > > > add the swap partition successfully?
> > >
> > > OK, I don't know how to pause the boot process, so I can only give you
> > > the last screen before the crash. It looks at my IDE devices, the
> > > floppy, and the SCSI bus, then this follows:
> > >
> > > Partition check:
> > > sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 (root on 5)
> > > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6
> > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k init 32k prep
> > > Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
> > > Rebooting in 180 seconds..
> >
> > Looks good to me.
> >
> > > I don't see anything about adding the swap partition.
> >
> > Okay, that must be done after init is started. (Silly me to think it came before.)
> >
> > > > When you boot with the ramdisk, you should be able to mount your existing Linux
> > > > partition(s). Then you can use alt-F2 to switch to a different console and open
> > > > a shell (and switch back to the install console with alt-F1). "df" will verify
> > > > that the partitions are where you say they are (your installed root partition
> > > > should be mounted as /target/).
> > >
> > > This works fine, /dev/sda5 is /target.
> > >
> > > > Then do "ls target/sbin" and you should see init. It shouldn't be necessary to
> > > > pass an "init=" parameter.
> > >
> > > This works too, /target/sbin/init is there.
> >
> > Hmm... AFAIK, the installed kernel is the same as the one on the rescue floppy, so
> > if the rescue floppy sees /dev/sda5 then the installed kernel should too.
> >
> > The only other thing I can think of is a missing or incorrect /dev entry, but this
> > should give an error earlier, while trying to mount root readonly. Just to make
> > sure, it might be worth booting in the rescue floppy, mounting existing partition(s),
> > and doing "ls -l /target/dev/sda5". Please report the result to the list, I don't
> > know what the major/minor numbers should be (I'm away from my mac for a couple of
> > weeks).
>
> OK, I get the following:
>
> brw-rw---- 1 root 8, 5 Jul 20 01:06 /target/dev/sda5
>
> > What model powermac is this again?
>
> Beige G3/300.
Hello? Anybody else have any idea what's wrong? I'm still waiting here.
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