[TriLUG] gentoo kernel panic - resolution

[z]

The issue seems to have been introduced after I synchronized the portage tree 
which updated genkernel from 1.8 to 3.0.1-r1 and gentoo-sources from 
2.4.20-r6 to 2.4.22-r7.

I reinstalled a second time omitting "emerge sync" before compiling my kernel. 
I can now boot my laptop and login, all I have to do is figure out how to get 
one of my pcmcia nic's to be recognized with this kernel ;-(


On Thursday 26 February 2004 12:26, z wrote:
> I just finished another new install of Gentoo which went very well until I
> rebooted and got the following errors during boot
> ...
> STEP 5c: 	redirect console
> 		mknod: /newroot/dev/console: No such file or directory
> 		linuxrc: 277 : cannot open /newroot/dev/console: No such file
> 		kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>
> At this pont I can only power off.
>
> The kernel compiled successfully using the command
> "genkernel --menuconfig all"
> using gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r7 source with the following output:
>
> kernel compiled successfully!
>
> Required Kernel Params:
> : root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/$ROOT
>
>   where $ROOT is the device node for your root partition as
>   you should have specified in /etc/fstab
> You MUST tell your bootloader to use the generated initrd.
> Recommended Kernel Params
>
> 	:vga=0x317 splash=verbose
>
> I have three partitions
> /dev/hda1	/boot	(ext3)
> /dev/hda2 	swap
> /dev/hda3 	/	(reiserfs)
>
> This is my grub.conf params
>
> #Gentoo
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc
> real_root=/dev/hda1
> initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r7
>
> I tried changing the $ROOT paramater to /dev/hda3 and got the following
> error ...
> STEP 4a : Mounting root
> mount: Mounting /dev/hda3 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument
> Could not mount specified ROOT, try again
> Root block device unspecified or not detected
> Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell.
>
> Any advice would be helpful,
>
> z
>
> PS I followed a stage3 install and did a "emerge sync" to get the latest
> portage tree before compiling the kernel and reboot.
> I also tried subscribing to the gentoo list but never get a response from
> their server - anyone else on that list having issues?