On Feb 3, 2008 11:13 PM, osric fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
It couldn't find the root block device.I gave it /dev/hda9,but same error
message.
Regards,
Easwar
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