Gentoo -- init not found on bootup

carl67lp

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I know this would be better suited to the Gentoo forums, but I'm giving the brains here first crack at the problem. :)

Over the weekend I installed 2004.2 with no problems--until I rebooted. At that point, I got much of the way through the boot process, past the grub screen, up to:

Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

From what I've read, init isn't needed on non-genkernel kernels, as mine is. No other errors seem to be present above that line--and it does indicate that the root filesystem was loaded.

The only difference between this and other systems I've installed is that /usr, /bin, and /sbin are all on separate partitions. I'm thinking this is causing a problem. However, I rearranged my fstab so that those were above / in the list.

Does anyone have any insight into this problem?
 
No, this is off a RAID 5 array of SCSI drives. They're showing up fine on boot, as far as I can tell. That forum post was one I've pored over quite a bit for clues, but nothing applies, it seems.
 
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