Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote:
> Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu /
> & avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error,
> so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 .
>
> Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file, conveniently in /boot ,
> which has ReiserFS configured as a module, whereas Ext2 & Ext3 are 'y'.
> That suggests that it's running into a road-block:
> it needs to use ReiserFS to start 'init',
> but can't load modules till it has already started 'init'.
>
> In that case, I need to re-install Ubuntu using Ext2 or Ext3 .
> In fact, it wb as a bug in Ubuntu's "advanced" install.
>
> Does that make sense to anyone else ?
Or the module could be in the initrd -- should be. Also, be sure you
have root= in your append line.
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