Re: [CentOS] Centos5-live kernel panic?

2007-10-01 Thread Alain Spineux
On 10/1/07, Ted Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I am fairly sure that I had gotten this to work before, and I know that the
 Centos4-live disk worked OK, but now (maybe since I upgraded BIOS)

They are chances  you guessed the origin of the problem :-)

You can try if other live-cd like fedora 7 works and meet your need or
try downgrade your bios.

Did you add or switched any drive in your PC ?

Also you could try to put a drive in IDE0 Master.
I saw so much strange things !

 I get
 this sequence after booting the live cd:

 Creating /var in RAM ... Done
 Found Centos-live.sqfs but couldn't mount it:
 Linking /usr to /centos-live/usr
 /linuxrc: 1208: [: not found

 Freeing unused kernel memory: 296K freed
 Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 684K
 Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found
 Try passing init= option to kernel

 So far I:
 1. checked md5 of downloaded .iso
 2. burned another copy of CD w/ verify after burn using KD3
 3. tried CD in a VMWare machine, and it boots up fine
 4. tried failsafe boot option

 I am guessing that the problem goes back to the Found centos-live.spfs but
 couldn't mount it line, as this mounts OK on the VMWare machine.

 In case the hardware layout is confusing it, and I really do need to pass
 an init argument to it, my layout is:

 IDE 0 Master: None
Slave:  CD drive
 IDE 1 Master: CD drive
Slave:  hdd (windows 2000 boot)
 IDE 2 (SATA): sda
 IDE 3 (SATA): sdb
 IDE 4 (SATA): sdc

 MB is Gigabyte K8N Ultra 9
 nVidia NForce 4 chipset
 F9c BIOS version
 AMD64 processor
 1gb RAM

 Glad to supply other info if you tell me what you need and where to find it.

 Ted Miller
 Indiana
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[CentOS] Centos5-live kernel panic?

2007-09-30 Thread Ted Miller
I am fairly sure that I had gotten this to work before, and I know that the 
Centos4-live disk worked OK, but now (maybe since I upgraded BIOS) I get 
this sequence after booting the live cd:


Creating /var in RAM ... Done
Found Centos-live.sqfs but couldn't mount it:
Linking /usr to /centos-live/usr
/linuxrc: 1208: [: not found

Freeing unused kernel memory: 296K freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 684K
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found
Try passing init= option to kernel

So far I:
1. checked md5 of downloaded .iso
2. burned another copy of CD w/ verify after burn using KD3
3. tried CD in a VMWare machine, and it boots up fine
4. tried failsafe boot option

I am guessing that the problem goes back to the Found centos-live.spfs but 
couldn't mount it line, as this mounts OK on the VMWare machine.


In case the hardware layout is confusing it, and I really do need to pass 
an init argument to it, my layout is:


IDE 0 Master: None
  Slave:  CD drive
IDE 1 Master: CD drive
  Slave:  hdd (windows 2000 boot)
IDE 2 (SATA): sda
IDE 3 (SATA): sdb
IDE 4 (SATA): sdc

MB is Gigabyte K8N Ultra 9
nVidia NForce 4 chipset
F9c BIOS version
AMD64 processor
1gb RAM

Glad to supply other info if you tell me what you need and where to find it.

Ted Miller
Indiana
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