[tech] cybium linux problem
David Basden
davidb-0624 at rcpt.to
Fri Mar 11 19:24:23 WST 2005
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:16:08PM +0800, Alastair Irvine wrote:
> When attempting to boot to Linux* on cybium, it gives a kernel panic after
> mounting the filesystems; apparently something "tried to kill init".
>
> * 2.4 kernel; distro uknown
Is this the default install? If so, it's Debian...
I'll take a look at it next time i'm in (assuming someone hasn't fixed
it already), but "tried to kill init" normally means that the first
process started by the kernel (almost always init, but can also be
something in the initrd) exited, which doesn't normally happening[0].
Normally the stuff above might show what happened before that, to
cause init (or more likely, initrd setting up the system. man initrd on
a linux box for more info) to die.
David
[0] From typical UNIX IPC stuff, if you kill off init (pid 1), all children
of init are killed off, which is pretty much everything. The Linux
kernel realises that there (probably) isn't anything running in
userspace anymore, and points out that the computer probably isn't going
to be doing anything very interesting from that point onward.
More information about the tech
mailing list