On Feb 3, 2008 6:55 PM, Easwar Hariharan wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently(yesterday) installed Gentoo 2007 from a CD I obtained from Mehul
> Ved.
> Problems that dogged me:
>
> 1]The Live CD could not boot the ATi Radeon XPress 200(RC410) integrated
> card on my Intel D101GGC motherboard.
> 2]I ran the text mode(pseudo-GUI?) installer and refused to install the
> Gentoo Grub opting instead to add the relevant entries to my Ubuntu
> 7.04/boot/grub/menu.lst.So,I added the following for Gentoo:
>
> title Gentoo 2007
> root (hd0,8)
> kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda9
> initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5
>
> wherein my Gentoo / is partition number 9(hda9)So everything went fine till
> I tried to boot my Gentoo install.Kernel was recognized and starts
> booting,but during booting an error message pops up saying
> >>Booting (initramfs)..switch_root: "Bad init('/sbin/init)
> Kernel panic-not syncing-attempted to kill init!
>
> and the machine hangs there with the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LEDs blinking
> furiously.I have to press the Reset button to regain control.I tried a
> Google search and all I got was a topic on a development release of a
> VM.Cansomeone help me with this error?
>
> Regards,
> Easwar
Try this:
title=Gentoo 2007
root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda9 udev
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5
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OSRIC XAVIER FERNANDES
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