[LinuxBIOS] Kernel panic???

[Huang-Jen Wang]

Dear all,

I try to use my linuxbios to boot linux , and it hang at "Kernel panic
- not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel."

Does anyone know why it happen and give me some suggestions....

Thanks .....

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Huang-Jen Wang  [051003 11:16]:
> Dear all,
>
> I try to use my linuxbios to boot linux , and it hang at "Kernel panic
> not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel."
> Does anyone know why it happen and give me some suggestions....

a) no /sbin/init on the root partition
b) dram init failed?
...

Stefan

[Ronald G Minnich]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Huang-Jen Wang  [051003 11:16]:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I try to use my linuxbios to boot linux , and it hang at "Kernel panic
> > not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel."
> > Does anyone know why it happen and give me some suggestions....
>
> a) no /sbin/init on the root partition
> b) dram init failed?

this is almost always a partition table or similar issue. It would be 
nice to have the full console output.

ron

[Huang-Jen Wang]

Hi,Stefan

I can't make sure the problem caused by a) or b) but the linux system
in my HD can boot with Normal Bios.In the other hand, I try the same
HD on my two machine
, one is HDAMA mainboard, and they all got the same result...so I
guess it not caused by b) .... if it caused by a), I should do what to
solve the problem?....

Hi, Ron

Attached file is my full console output......

2005/10/3, Stefan Reinauer :
> Huang-Jen Wang  [051003 11:16]:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I try to use my linuxbios to boot linux , and it hang at "Kernel panic
> > not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel."
> > Does anyone know why it happen and give me some suggestions....
>
> a) no /sbin/init on the root partition
> b) dram init failed?
> ...
>
> Stefan

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:56:17AM +0800, Huang-Jen Wang wrote:
> FILO version 0.4.2 ([e-mail]) Thu Sep 22 15:46:08
> CST 2005
> Press <Enter> for default boot, or <Esc> for boot prompt...
> boot: hda1:/vmlinuz-2.6.13.2 root=/dev/hda1 console=tty0

[..]
> hda: ST320014A, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hda: max request size: 128KiB
> hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(100)
> hda: cache flushes supported
>  hda: hda1 hda2

[..]
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init=
> option to kernel.

Are you sure that /dev/hda1 is the root partition?

This depends on your distribution, but it's not uncommon to have
/boot be a separate partition and store the kernel there. If that is
the case in your system, try using root=/dev/hda2 with FILO instead.

//Peter