Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init

2011-07-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, July 25 at 21:04 (+1000), Adam Carter said: > > No message about init, just no more console messages. I'll try the > > kernel line. Thanks. > > Ok. i ran init from the shell, and it reported /dev/initctl no such > device or directory. > > I hadnt copied the contents of /dev across -

Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init

2011-07-25 Thread Adam Carter
> No message about init, just no more console messages. I'll try the > kernel line. Thanks. Ok. i ran init from the shell, and it reported /dev/initctl no such device or directory. I hadnt copied the contents of /dev across - i thought it was created automagically? Anyway, its copied now and I h

Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init

2011-07-25 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:49:21 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > >> When booting the kernel successfully mounts /dev/sdb3 as root fs >> Then the system halts at one of the freeing memory messages, but I >> assume the problem is that init isn't execut

Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init

2011-07-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sunday, July 24 at 09:49 (+1000), Adam Carter said: > Summary; > Copied / from sda3 to sdb3 > Updated the fstab in the new disk (/dev/sdb3 / > btrfs noatime,compress=lzo0 0) > Updated the kernel line's root=/dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb3 in grub.conf, > but left the root (hd0,0) a

Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init

2011-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:49:21 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > When booting the kernel successfully mounts /dev/sdb3 as root fs > Then the system halts at one of the freeing memory messages, but I > assume the problem is that init isn't executed from /dev/sdb3 Doesn't the kernel say something along the

[gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init

2011-07-23 Thread Adam Carter
Summary; Copied / from sda3 to sdb3 Updated the fstab in the new disk (/dev/sdb3 / btrfs noatime,compress=lzo0 0) Updated the kernel line's root=/dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb3 in grub.conf, but left the root (hd0,0) as it is. So, kernel is loaded from sda but init should run from sdb. W