On Feb 3, 2008 6:55 PM, Easwar Hariharan wrote:
Hi, I recently(yesterday) installed Gentoo 2007 from a CD I obtained from Mehul Ved. Problems that dogged me:
1]The Live CD could not boot the ATi Radeon XPress 200(RC410) integrated card on my Intel D101GGC motherboard. 2]I ran the text mode(pseudo-GUI?) installer and refused to install the Gentoo Grub opting instead to add the relevant entries to my Ubuntu 7.04/boot/grub/menu.lst.So,I added the following for Gentoo:
title Gentoo 2007 root (hd0,8) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda9 initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5
wherein my Gentoo / is partition number 9(hda9)So everything went fine till I tried to boot my Gentoo install.Kernel was recognized and starts booting,but during booting an error message pops up saying
Booting (initramfs)..switch_root: "Bad init('/sbin/init)
Kernel panic-not syncing-attempted to kill init!
and the machine hangs there with the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LEDs blinking furiously.I have to press the Reset button to regain control.I tried a Google search and all I got was a topic on a development release of a VM.Cansomeone help me with this error?
Regards, Easwar
Try this:
title=Gentoo 2007 root (hd0,8) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda9 udev initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5