Re: 2.6.14-rc4-mm1 dead in early boot

From: Michael Neuffer
Date: Tue Oct 18 2005 - 09:25:54 EST


Quoting Andrew Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxx):
> Helge Hafting <helgehaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:09:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Helge Hafting <helgehaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This one gets me a penguin on the framebuffer, and then dies
> > > > with no further textual output.
> > > > numlock leds were working, and I could reboot with sysrq.
> > >
> > > Can we get anything useful out of sysrq-p and sysrq-t?
> > >
> > > Also, adding initcall_debug to the boot command line might help.
> > >
> > Tried again without the framebuffer. Still hanging, but more info:
> >
> > Last messages before getting stuck:
> > md autorun DONE
> > kjournald starting
> > Ext3-fs mounted fs w. ordered data mode
> > VFS mounted root (ext3) read-only
> > freeing unused kernel memory 216k freed.
> > warning-unable to open an initial console
> > kernel panic-not syncing:No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
> >
> >
> > Somewhat silly. There certainly was a console (vgacon) or I wouldn't
> > be able to read the messages. And if it mounted root, then there certainly
> > was an init to run also.
>
> Can you send the .config please?

I see the same effect, with the only difference
that I don't get the kernel panic line.
For me it gets stuck after the "warning-unable to open an initial console"

I'll send you the .config in a seperate mail.

Cheers
Mike
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