On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:55 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 06:56:35AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> >> It's panicking because you specified the wrong root device: >> >> [90779.943892] EXT4-fs (vdiska1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 >> subsystem >> [90779.951847] EXT4-fs (vdiska1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. >> Opts: (null) >> [90780.025922] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! >> exitcode=0x00000200 >> [90780.025922] >> [90780.026642] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Tainted: G E >> 4.5.0-2-sparc64-smp #1 Debian 4.5.2-1 >> [90780.027297] Call Trace: >> [90780.027511] [000000000055777c] panic+0xdc/0x260 >> [90780.027860] [000000000046a270] do_exit+0xb30/0xb40 >> [90780.028224] [000000000046a330] do_group_exit+0x30/0xc0 >> [90780.029623] [000000000046a3dc] SyS_exit_group+0x1c/0x40 >> [90780.030027] [0000000000406294] linux_sparc_syscall+0x34/0x44 >> [90780.031618] Press Stop-A (L1-A) to return to the boot prom >> [90780.032028] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! >> exitcode=0x00000200 >> [90780.032028] >> >> You specified vdiska1 which is your boot part: >> >> > Kernel command line: root=/dev/vdiska1 ro console=ttyS0,9600,8n1 >> >> /dev/vdiska1 is the boot partition for SILO, not the root filesystem. > > There's only two partitions: vdiska1 which contains everything and vdiska2 > which is swap. >
please make a small ext2/ext3 partition (i suggest at least 300Mb in size) at the beginning of disk, so /boot should be your /dev/sda1 , then make everything else (root fs, swap, etc...). Works for me (in LDOMs and physical servers).

