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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: ordep on June 11, 2012, 04:30:19 AM

Title: [SOLVED] Kernel Panic
Post by: ordep on June 11, 2012, 04:30:19 AM

I installed the current version of TCL to my hard drive and on booting I get:

Quote

EXT4-fs (sdb9): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. try passing init= option to kernel
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.021-tinycore #3021
Call Trace:
[<c04124fb>] ? 0xc04124fb
and for more lines similar to this.

There is no problem on my flash drive installation.

I installed as well from that flash drive and get the same kernel panic as when installed from CD.

How to resolve?

Title: Re: Kernel Panic
Post by: curaga on June 11, 2012, 05:39:31 AM

Sounds like the initrd wasn't loaded. How did you install? Are the installed bootloader config files fine, is the initrd on the hd, uncorrupted?

Title: Re: Kernel Panic
Post by: ordep on June 11, 2012, 10:48:26 PM

I installed following the installer instructions. I cannot see any initrd on the HD of the TCL partition nor on the flash drive installation.

If I boot  from the CD it says initrd=/boot/core.gz. Therefore, how do I pass this information to the kernel when booting into the HD installation if this is what I am missing?

Title: Re: Kernel Panic
Post by: gerald_clark on June 11, 2012, 10:58:42 PM

You don't.
The bootloader, not the kernel loads the initrd.

Edit your bootloader config file.

Title: Re: Kernel Panic
Post by: ordep on June 12, 2012, 05:02:24 AM

Quote from: gerald_clark on June 11, 2012, 10:58:42 PM

You don't.
The bootloader, not the kernel loads the initrd.

Edit your bootloader config file.

Thanks! Worked like a charm and fast.  ;D :D :)

Title: Re: Kernel Panic
Post by: jolene on March 07, 2013, 04:25:34 AM

Quote from: ordep on June 12, 2012, 05:02:24 AM

Quote from: gerald_clark on June 11, 2012, 10:58:42 PM

You don't.
The bootloader, not the kernel loads the initrd.

Edit your bootloader config file.

Thanks! Worked like a charm and fast.  ;D :D :)

hello ordep,

can i know the detailed steps that you took to solve this issue as I am super new to Linux system ? I am facing the same issue. What I am trying to do here is to is to boot-up my remastered iso image from a USB flash drive. I encountered this problem after choosing a window manager option.


many thanks in advance !

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Kernel Panic
Post by: tinypoodle on March 07, 2013, 04:48:55 AM

Chose a window manager option how or where exactly?

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Kernel Panic
Post by: jolene on March 08, 2013, 03:42:15 AM

hey,

im refering to the start-up option in which users could chose which windows manager to boot up with.