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.) Maarten > Boot from the live CD, mount your root, and do: > > cp -a /dev/console /dev/null /dev/zero /mnt/gentoo/dev/ > > -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
