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On boot, I end up with a kernel panic message. Here are some relevant lines leading up to the problem:
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scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-844S 1.10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
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Failed to mount /dev/cd/cdrw-sr0
Failed to mount /dev/cd/dvd-sr0
ERROR: cannot find booted cdrom device, cannot continue...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
I have sucessfully booted linux from CD when using systemrescuecd in order to make my partitions.
In searching I found this post and this one, both of which address similar issues but not exactly the same. The first is the most promising but provides no solutions.
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I get the same error, but a slightly different setup leading to it.
My hda died, so I put a new drive in and I'm trying to install from scratch. Since I had linux on this box already, sda and sdb are a pair of 750G drives that I use in a RAID1 software mirror. So my physical devices are:
hda: 160G PATA (probably had some crap on it before, will be re-partitioned and formatted)
hdb: dvd drive used for install
sda: 750G SATA
sdb: 750G SATA
Using 2008.06 ftp i686, I see:
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 240121728 512-byte hardware sectors (122942 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO of FUA
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB)
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO for FUA
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB)
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO for FUA
sdb: unknown partition table
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
done.
:: Running Hook [boot-cd]
:: Waiting for usb devices to settle...
:: Scanning for boot cdrom device...
Failed to mount /dev/cd/*
ERROR: cannot find booted cdrom device, cannot continue...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Obviously I can't copy and paste (this isn't a VM), so there may be some typos in there.
There are a couple things that seem strange to me:
1) [strike]I don't have a 122GB device in the system, why does sda claim 122942 MB?[/strike] That's my 160G PATA drive, interesting
2) Why is sdb listed twice?
3) [strike]Where is my other 750G drive? They're SATA, it's not like I got the jumpers wrong.[/strike] In my haste to install the new drive, I knocked one of the SATA power cables out... far too easy to do, that'd never happen with the older PATA-style power plugs
The unknown partition table on sdb is expected... I'm using the raw device for software RAID, not partitioned.
I'd try the USB flash drive route, but I don't have one and I need to get this server fixed today... for now, I'll try some older Arch CDs.
Last edited by TheAmigo (2008-09-20 23:28:47)

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Not sure if this happened to you, but it's possible. It happened to this user as well.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4178327&#4178327

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