> -----Original Message----- > From: Maarten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 February 2006 17:49 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the > installation of Gentoo > > > Richard Fish wrote: > >>Now, after rebooting, it really went straight, with text menu. It > >>starts loading really fast the system,but all of a sudden, a "Kernel > >>Panic" says: > >> > >>Warning - Unable to open an initial console > >>Kernel panic - not suncing: No init found. Try passing > init= option to kernel > > > > > > This message usually means you are missing /dev/console on > your root filesystem. > > That warning, yes. > But the error right after that means what it says: No init > found, ie. it > has mounted a filesystem (else you get another error-: Kernel panic - > cannot mount root partition) but it is unable to find 'init' there. > From that, one can deduce the OP probably pointed the kernel to the > wrong root partition (ie. /boot, or /usr, etc.)
. . or, on a multipartition installation they've missed out some rather important directory which needs to be in / for it to boot, like e.g. /sbin. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
