On Wednesday 21 October 2009 21:07:18 Jonathan Callen wrote: > Maxim Wexler wrote: > > 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. > > To me, that looks like /dev/sda1 (which is what the kernel is using as > root=) doesn't contain any of the following: > /sbin/init > /etc/init > /bin/init > /bin/sh > > Noting that the kernel output implied that it was an ext2 filesystem, > that looks like it mounted your /boot as /, which fails as there isn't > any init available on it. > > PS: > In case you were wondering how I knew it was /dev/sda1, that's what > "device 8:1" means: the block device with major number 8 and minor > number 1, which happens to be the major:minor assigned to /dev/sda1.
Does /dev/sda1 genuinely contain / and not for example /boot? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
