Re: annoyances digest, Vol 1 #88 - 14 msgs
Mo McKinlay <mo.mckinlay-ZW9u5aLsJ29O/fpWF/[email protected]>
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:00:01PM -0700, annoyances-request-DzJonyRHso41Ayx8vbq1stBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org wrote: > "EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,1)): ext 2_read_super: mounting ext3 > filesystem as ext2 The device and partition you've specified as the root filesystem is ext3fs, but your kernel is expecting an ext2fs fielsystem. > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 system) read only. ..but it can mount it anyway. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 108 k freed While starting up, Linux uses a certain amount of memory which can be freed up before it passes control of the system down to userspace. This figure varies depending on what you have compiled into the kernel. > Warning: unable to open an initial console. The kernel is expecting to be able to open /dev/console, but failed (i.e., because it wasn't there) This is a good indication that either a) You're not mounting the right partion as your root FS (the ext3fs messages, above, would hint in this direction) b) The system's built for devfs, but it's not compiled in or the /kernel/ option isn't set to mount it automatically (just putting it into fstab doesn't help). > Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel." The system looks for "init". Normally, this lives in /sbin. If the kernel can't find any kind of init, it tries to execute /bin/sh. If it can't find that, it prints the message above. This is usually a very good pointer than you've specified the wrong partition as the root FS. HTH, Mo. -- E: mo.mckinlay-ZW9u5aLsJ29O/fpWF/[email protected] T: +44 (0) 709 200 3083 W: http://cirrus-multimedia.ltd.uk/people/mckinlay