[YLUG] Grub

[Dr P Dupre]

Hello,

At the boot of the new kernel, I get:
Setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or device
Setuproot: error mounting /proc:  No such file or device
Setuproot: error mounting /sys:  No such file or device
error opening /dev/console
Trying use fd 0 instead
warning can't access (null)
exec of init (null failed !!! Bad address
Kernel panic not syncing: Attempted to kill init


> On 09/12/2007, Nicholas Thomas <nick at lupine.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Could be a specific hardware incompatibility/bug. .23 isn't a stable
>> release, after all. I would dump it and go back to the working kernel.
>>
>> yum install debootstrap is also cool... ;)
>
>
> What makes you think that .23 is not stable?  In the old days odd kernel
> numbers did indicate this but for quite some time there has not been such a
> thing as stable and unstable kernels that are released. Unstable are .rcn
>
> Indeed it is possible that there is a specific hardware problem - however it
> would be a good idea to get some diagnostic output during the boot process
> in order to proceed. What does /var/log/messages show if anything? what does
> dmesg contain after a failed boot, if anything? I see the OP has hiddenmenu
> selected for the boot process - if the boot is unhidden are there any
> messages that appear on the screen before the system panics?  Is there a
> real kernel panic or does the system just stop and fail to proceed with the
> boot?  Has the OP searched https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ for bugs already
> reported which may be the same? It might be possible to put a forum post
> into Fedora list (eg at
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general )
>
> There is almost no useful information posted so far that would allow people
> to try triaging this problem.
>
> If the OP posts some useful output from the system just before the
> crash/hang then progress may be possible.
>
>

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Patrick Dupré                                             pd520 at york.ac.uk
University of York                                 Department of Chemistry
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