Hi all,
I've tried to compile the kernel in my laptop with Pentium-4(gcc>31) enabled and after rebooting I get a kernel panic that it has nothing to do with it, I think. The interesting lines are: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err: -2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
I don't know if it matter but I've enabled framebuffer and when doing lilo I get a message saying it doesn't recognize my video card or so. Why can't it mount devfs. I've put nothing about it in fstab. Only 'Automaticly mount at boot time' option in the kernel is enabled. I've followed the steps at the gentoo site.
Any ideas?
It sounds like you have the root= value wrong in your bootloader. This is mentioned in the install docs. It should point to your / partition, (not the partition containing /boot. it's an easy mistake to make)
For example, if your / partition was hda3, you would put root=/dev/hda3 The steps are different for lilo and grub, refer to the documentation.
-Chris I
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