Kernel panic stopps booting after "fine tuning"

Hi there,
i tried the unstable macbookversion of elive today.
(1.9.21) in live-mode it worked very fine. but after installing it to harddisk, and starting the "fine-tuning" a kernel-panic leaded to a stop of the boot-progress very early after reboot...

Details: After installing to hd, the first boot worked pretty well. But then i started a progress wich intended to "fine-tune" my macbook-elive. I changed nothing else.
My machine: Macbook (4.1)

These were the last entrys of the showed log:

"RAMDISK: Couldn´t find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Replacing swsusp
TuxOnIce: Can´t translate "dev/sda5" (wich is my swap) into a device id yet
List of all partitions:
No filesystem could mount root, tried:
Lernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,4)"

I hope someone can fix this! :-)



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/2009 12:33AM by benfm.

I had the same problem on my MacBook, after running the 'fine-tune' the boot-process stops with a kernel panic.
I only captured a few screen-outputs of the 'fine-tune' because I was working meanwhile. Anyway, I think I have seen some output about 'lilo' and some changes to the initial ramdisk.
So maybe one solution could be to execute 'lilo' again after 'fine-tune' has finished.

Because I prefer 'grub', I solved the problem this way:

Boot the elive-CD into the console and
login as root then mount your installed system. My root-partition is on sda4. Normally, the drives are already mounted under /mnt, but I had to make a little change, because my /usr-partition is on sda5:

umount /mnt/sda5
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda4/usr

We need a chroot-environment, so we have to switch proc and dev:

mount -t proc none /mnt/sda4/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/sda4/dev

Let's do the chroot:

chroot /mnt/sda4 /bin/bash

Now let's install grub; the stage-files are not in /boot by default, so we copy them first, then start the grub-console:

cp /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/* /boot/grub/
grub

On the grub-command line you have to define your root-device, for me it is sda4:

root (hd0,3)

Install grub. I use the refit as boot-loader on the Mac, and don't want to change that, so I installed grub to be chain-loaded by it:

setup (hd0,3)
quit

Now we have to enter the system in the boot-menu, open it with an editor:

vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

And enter something like this, depending on your kernel and initial ramdisk and your root-partition:

   default 0
   timeout 5
   title ELIVE
     root (hd0,3)
     kernel (hd0,3)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26.8-elive-686 root=/dev/sda4
     initrd (hd0,3)/boot/initrd.img-2-.6.26.8-elive-686

Save and reboot, everything should work now.

Interesting - this post should be made part of a faq somewhere.

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ELive 1.9.16

I agree. Roko79, can you post this in the "Misc Howtos" subforum ? Thanks