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Re: [Xen-users] Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.
From: Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:16:41 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Avron Olshewsky <avrono@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 at 14:00, Avron Olshewsky wrote:
> this is the latter part of the start up output

What I meant was: please post the errors *to the mailinglist*, so that 
others can help too.

> ^Mi8042.c: No controller found.
> ^MRAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
> ^MXen virtual console successfully installed as tty1
> ^MEvent-channel device installed.
> ^Mblkif_init: reqs=64, pages=704, mmap_vstart=0xcf400000
> ^Mnetfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
> ^MUniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> ^Mide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> ^MRegistering block device major 3
> ^Mide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> ^Musbmon: debugfs is not available
> ^Musbcore: registered new driver libusual
> ^Mmice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> ^Mmd: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> ^Mmd: bitmap version 4.39
> ^MNET: Registered protocol family 2
> ^MIP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> ^MTCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> ^MTCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> ^MTCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
> ^MTCP reno registered
> ^MInitializing IPsec netlink socket
> ^MNET: Registered protocol family 1
> ^MNET: Registered protocol family 17
> ^MNET: Registered protocol family 8
> ^MNET: Registered protocol family 20
> ^MUsing IPI No-Shortcut mode
> ^Mmd: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> ^Mmd: autorun ...
> ^Mmd: ... autorun DONE.
> ^MVFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> ^MFreeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed
> ^MWarning: unable to open an initial console.
> ^MKernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to
> kernel.

So, it did mount a root filesystem. Usually the "no init found" erros stem 
from a missing root filesystem. Hm, maybe the "root filesystem" was not 
actually "root"? Is your "/" really formatted with ext2, or could it be 
that the "/boot" partition got mounted?

Christian.

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