Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

[Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>]

I'm using grup-pc, which is grub2:

che:/home/aperrin# dpkg -l | grep grub
ii  grub-common                                          1.97~beta3-1 
GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files)
ii  grub-pc                                              1.97~beta3-1 
GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version)


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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA



On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have not used grub2, however- I will ask others on the list--
> > >
> > > If you are compiling (most) everything into the image itself, you probably 
> > > don't need the insmod line below and I am not sure you want the search
> > > line either.
> > >
> > > menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30 (recovery mode)" {
> > >  insmod ext2 <- Remove
> > >  set root=(hd0,1)
> > >  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 19ee8fc7-d4b5-4ea3-86d9-eba7bf3b857e
> > >  linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30 root=/dev/sda1 ro single }
> > >
> > > Please try the following instead:
> > >
> > > menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30" {
> > >  set root=(hd0,1)
> > >  linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30 root=/dev/sda1 ro
> > > }
> >
> > Same problem - no text scrolls by, the first (and last) thing on the screen 
> > is:
> >
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to 
> > kernel.
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
> > Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology
> > University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
>
> Are you using grub or grub2?
>
> $ dpkg -l | grep -i grub
>
> Someone who has worked with grub/grub2 more is going to have to take a look 
> at this, I still use lilo on all my hosts here, it sounds like your kernel is 
> ok as you stated you upgrade it regularly.
>
> When you boot do you select the image that you installed?  I'd be curious 
> what the problem is here as well :)
>
> Justin.