[YLUG] Grub

[john halewood]

On 10/12/2007, Dr P Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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

Okay, the problem is nothing to do with the kernel then. This suggests
that the problem you have is with initrd - the initial ramdisk that
the kernel boots. When the kernel is initialising it, it's finding
problems inside the ramdisk - i.e. it can't find the right drivers
inside the ramdisk. This has been reported before (google for
setuproot -xen). You bascially need to get a replacement initrd (or
just ignore it, build your own kernel and don't use initrd). You're
not using any kind of RAID device by any chance are you? That often
seems to cause a problem (with the raid drivers being missed out of
the initrd).

cheers
john