as a follow up go here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13560
Virtually identical problem. Check out the screen pic. Just like mine, save for the hardware and fs differences. mw On 10/21/09, Maxim Wexler <maxim.wex...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi group, > > Did linux#make menuconfig followed by linux# make && make > modules_install on the .2.6.30-gentoo-r7 sources. And copied over the > new kernel and rebooted. > > The kernel panicked. The relevant messages are: > > <...> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, > Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed > Warning: unable to open an initial console > Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to > kernel. > Pid: 1. comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-gentoo-r7 #2 > Call Trace: > [<c0479986>] ? printk+0xf/0x11 > [<c04798dc>] panic+0x39/0xd4 > [<c020135z>] init_post+0x13c/0x13e > [<c05b62dc>] kernel_init+0x148/0x152 > [<c05b6194>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x152 > [<c02033cf>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > > > So far I've tried adding 'init=/bin/bash' and 'init=/sbin/init' to the > command line. No help. Someone in a forum suggested chrooting and > emerging sysvinit. But that's already installed. > > There's a million hits on google for this error message with about as > many solutions. > > Assuming it has something to do with my kernel config, I tried running > $diff -y on the two configs but at approx. 2600 lines per file I'm > going to need some advice on what to zero in on. > > I tried to keep the new config as same as the old. But there's a lot > of new features, weird stuff like CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS=y and the new > decompression protocol. > > > Maxim >
