[syslinux] Kernel panic - not syncing

Stephen Liu satimis at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 29 04:36:00 PDT 2005


Hi folks,

syslinux-3.11
squashfs2.2-r2

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I have built a LFS LiveCD on BLSF 6.1 and burned on CD-RW.  On booting
following warning popup;
.....
VFS : Mounted root (ext2 filesystem readonly)
Freeing unused kernel memory : 216K freed
Warning unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic - not syncing : No init found
Trying passing init = option to kernel
(It hung here)

I have been searching around for solution with result.

# ldd /mnt/livecd/bin/bash
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00fbb000)
        libreadline.so.5.0 => not found
        libhistory.so.5.0 => not found
        libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x06018000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x009d3000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00882000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00868000)

# ls /mnt/livecd/lib | grep linux-gate.so.1
(No printout)
# ls /mnt/livecd/lib | grep libreadline.so.5.0
libreadline.so.5.0
# ls /mnt/livecd/lib | grep libhistory.so.5.0
libhistory.so.5.0
# ls /mnt/livecd/lib | grep libncurses.so.5
libncurses.so.5
libncurses.so.5.4
# ls /mnt/livecd/lib | grep libdl.so.2
libdl.so.2
# ls /mnt/livecd/lib | grep libc.so.6
libc.so.6
# ls /mnt/livecd/lib | grep libdl.so.2
libdl.so.2

# ls -l /mnt/livecd/dev/
total 8
crw-------  1 root root 5, 1 Oct 26 21:30 console
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   11 Oct 26 21:38 core -> /proc/kcore
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   13 Oct 26 21:38 fd -> /proc/self/fd
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 1, 3 Oct 26 21:30 null
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 26 21:38 pts
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 26 21:39 shm
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   15 Oct 26 21:38 stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   15 Oct 26 21:38 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   15 Oct 26 21:38 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1

# ls -l /mnt/livecd/sbin/ | grep init
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  31240 Aug  5 18:57 init
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      4 Oct 26 21:19 telinit -> init


Config-2.6.11.12
Now thing comes here.  The original ".config" and the kernel source
tree have been already deleted.  There is a "Config-2.6.11.12" on
/isolinux.  Its version number is the same but inside all items
previously compiled changed.

e.g.
# cat /mnt/livecd/isolinux/config-2.6.11.12 | grep BLK_DEV_LOOP
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set
# cat /mnt/livecd/isolinux/config-2.6.11.12 | grep SND_PCM
CONFIG_SND_PCM=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y

(Original .config
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m
and some more not listed here)

I copied the orginal ".config" overwriting it and burned another CD. 
Problem still remained with the same warnings popup.  Please advise
where I have to check.

TIA

B.R.
S.L.




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