fraz wrote:
I am trying to install amd64 Etch using the beta 1 release installer
onto an 80Gig USB 2.0 Hard Drive. It goes pretty well, the drive is
picked up at /dev/sda and installs happilly.
Unfortunately it won't boot, and the kernel prints this message:
/sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init!
I don't know what's wrong. The computer can boot USB drives. But i'm
booting using grub on a floppy to load the kernel. Could it be that it
can't mount the filesystems properly?
Thanks!
I eventually worked out it was because the initrd image was lacking the
neccessary USB/UMS modules. May be worth adding an option somewhere to
make this painless for others in the future. Following these hints fixed
the problem:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/11/msg01601.html
Briefly:
With the usb drive mounted on /target start a shell (Alt-F2) and edit:
# nano /target/etc/mkinitrd/modules to add sd_mod, ehci-hcd, uhci-hcd,
ohci-hcd, usb-storage
# nano /target/etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf to add DELAY=10 (allows USB
drive detection, I suspect lower values also work)
# chroot /target
# mkinintrd -o /boot/initrd-<version> (follow hints to mount proc + try
again)
Reboot and harrah!
fraz
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