Fresh install produces kernel panic

Question

Oh boyz,
I really don't know where to continue....
Several days I goofed around, I really hope somebody can help me
further. OK, here's my story...
I run a fine ARCH on a laptop, I joined half a year ago. I started with
a 2.4 kernel, and then got updated until the recent 2.6.19 now. At that
point, let me say BIG THX to you arch guys. You are really doing a fine
work. I hope I can give something back to the community some day.
Some days ago I purchased a second laptop, a Siemens 1,8 Celeron with
a 40GB disc. So, it's not a very exotic thing, it's simply a (kinda
old) working horse.
I took my 0.7 floppies and started a floppy-ftp install. So far so good.
Everything went well, internet connection and so on until....... I
rebooted the "new" :-) system.
BTW: The configuration is not very exciting.... no extra partioning, no
special hardware. So I stepped through the installation guide and tried
to figure out via the search function of the forum what went wrong.
Believe it or not, I am trying for several days to get the machine
running. I CAN'T GET RID OF THAT:
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive...
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
done.
:: Running Hook [filesystems]
:: Loading root filesystems module... ext3
:: Initramfs Completed - control passing to kinit
ATTENTION:
If you get a kernel panic below and are using an Intel chipset, append
'earlymodules=piix' to the kernel commandline
IP-Config: no devices to configure
kinit: Cannot open root device hda3(3,3)
kinit: init not found
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init
OK, what did I try ? At first (of course) to append the
earlymodules=pixx in the menu.lst of GRUB. No effect.
Then renaming the devices in fstab and menu.lst from hdax to sdx. No
effect. Hm. Installing a 2.4 kernel failed, it could not be found by
the installer. BTW, the "i8042.panicblink=0" is a fine thing to get rid
of the "Spurious Ack" message, which covers the original error messages
very quickly.
So... can somebody help me of give me a hint ?
What I suppose....I think that the installation procedure using the
available floppy images is not enough for installing the recent
kernel, it needs some manual tuning. But which ?
Maybe its a good idea to append some configuration infos:
(menu.lst)
title ARCH
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda3 i8042.panicblink=0 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
(fstab)
none /dev/pts devpts default 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0
0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
(rc.conf)
LOCALE stuff...
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
MOD_BLACKLIST=()
MODULES=(floppy)
USELVM="no"
...network stuff...
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond)
Ideas ?
Greez from Nuremberg, Germany. And have a good 2007 !!!!

Answer 1

scg wrote:
Oh boyz,
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive...
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
done.
:: Running Hook [filesystems]
:: Loading root filesystems module... ext3
:: Initramfs Completed - control passing to kinit
ATTENTION:
If you get a kernel panic below and are using an Intel chipset, append
'earlymodules=piix' to the kernel commandline
IP-Config: no devices to configure
[code]kinit: Cannot open root device hda3(3,3)
kinit: init not found[/code]
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init
(menu.lst)
title ARCH
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda3 i8042.panicblink=0 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
(fstab)
none /dev/pts devpts default 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0
0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
(rc.conf)
LOCALE stuff...
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
MOD_BLACKLIST=()
MODULES=(floppy)
USELVM="no"
...network stuff...
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond)
Ideas ?
try with the fallback img, see what you get...
but i suspect your grub/menu.lst.... or your /etc/fstab
kinit: Cannot open root device hda3(3,3)
kinit: init not found