Kernel Panic

Fri Mar 29 15:24:38 EST 2002

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You can use the Mandrake CD to boot to rescue (f1), then you can simulate your system by &quot;chroot /mnt&quot; but before you do that, take a look at your partitions by &quot;cfdisk /dev/hd?&quot; with the question mark being your drive letter. Once you know that they are all ok, you can then check your /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files, they will be under /mnt/etc/fstab and /mnt/etc/mtab respectively using the restore process. That should get you off to a good start. <A HREF="mailto:peter at thecybersource.com">peter at thecybersource.com</A> 
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On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 14:38, S. Lawton wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I done a baaaaaaad thing !</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I was trying to use Mandrake's control center to install a local </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>printer, and got a total system freeze. No keyboard or mouse input </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>accepted. I left it for 5 min just in case it was a long process, but </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>no change. I had to do a &quot;dirty&quot; exit using the system reset button. </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>The LiLo screen came up, and windows still works but linux, linux </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>no fb, failsafe and booting from floppy all yield the same result. The </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>screen says in part: </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) read only </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>mounted devfs on /dev </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Freeing unused kernel memory: 712 K freed </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Then is the blinking cursor but no input accepted.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Booting from the install CD, I tried the rescue option and was able </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>to get to the following prompt: </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>[root at rescue/]# </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I did a few cd and ls -a, because I figured just looking can't hurt, </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>and there's lots of directories and files still there. [not that I'm very </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>sure what's supposed to be where. I've been working on trying to </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>master the KDE]  Is it FUBAR, or is there a way to &quot;rescue&quot; this </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>disaster ? </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>It's dual boot on one drive, linux root is in hda7, and LiLo is </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>apparently down in the MBR because it still works. </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I have no idea where to put init= , or what option[s] to specify. </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Scott</FONT></FONT></I>
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