Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

[Cef]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:10, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 10:46 +1000, Cef wrote:
> > Of this, the important line is:
> > > VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hda5.
> >
> > The boot process is looking for an ext3 filesystem in hda5, and it can't
> > find it. But there is more:
>
> Hi, I don't want to disagree or something, but that message is always
> printed whenever the root file-system is not an EXT3. For example, my
> root is /dev/hda1 and it's ReiserFS and I always get the same message
> but the boot process continues without a hitch.

Feel free to disagree. We're all human and we all make mistakes occasionly. 
And if I'm going to put this stuff in a wiki entry, I want to get it right.

> In other words, the boot process (initrd?) expect an EXT3 on the real
> root file-system and prints that message if it finds another FS
> (RieserFS in my case) or if it didn't finds an FS all together.

Which is annoying.

> (The reason that I replayed is that everybody is focusing in that line
> as if it's the cause if the problem, which might be true or not.)

Didn't know that. Good catch.

> (If anybody else on the list have a RieserFS on their root FS and don't
> have that same message, please correct me.)

Yes. It'd be good to get a definitive answer on that.

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 Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - cef at optus.net