Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore
On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, David Griffith wrote:
I followed those instruction and got the same results. I installed Wheezy on
a spare machine. There I was able to create a writable flash drive installer
that installs Jessie.
Following up... The effect is exactly like what would happen if you delete
initrd.gz from the thumb drive.
[ 0.801766] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20140531_083030-gandalf 04/01/2014
[ 0.801930] 0000000000000000 ffffffff81514c11 ffffffff817054c8 ffff8800070b7ea0
[ 0.802072] ffffffff8151195e ffff880000000010 ffff8800070b7eb0 ffff8800070b7e50
[ 0.802166] ffff8800070b7ea0 ffff8800070b7eb8 0000000000000012 0000000000000001
[ 0.802282] Call Trace:
[ 0.802572] [<ffffffff81514c11>] ? dump_stack+0x5d/0x78
[ 0.802654] [<ffffffff8151195e>] ? panic+0xc8/0x206
[ 0.802734] [<ffffffff819035a7>] ? mount_block_root+0x2a9/0x2b8
[ 0.802788] [<ffffffff811bae95>] ? SyS_mknod+0x185/0x210
[ 0.802841] [<ffffffff81903739>] ? prepare_namespace+0x133/0x169
[ 0.802893] [<ffffffff81903258>] ? kernel_init_freeable+0x1d7/0x1e1
[ 0.802945] [<ffffffff8190295e>] ? initcall_blacklist+0xb2/0xb2
[ 0.802996] [<ffffffff81507da0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[ 0.803046] [<ffffffff81507daa>] ? kernel_init+0xa/0xf0
[ 0.803096] [<ffffffff8151ad18>] ? ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
[ 0.803146] [<ffffffff81507da0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[ 0.803506] Kernel Offset: 0x0 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff9fffffff)
[ 0.803738] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
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David Griffith
dave@661.org
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