[TriLUG] Kernel Panic - This can't be good for a Friday morning

[Stephen Hoffman]

This may be way off base, but I had this happen to me when I had an
incorrect paramater in grub.  I built a custom kernel and when I updated
grub, I had a typo on the initrd line...I got the same: Kernel panic: no
init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel. error.  May not be your
answer, but if you made any recent changes, it's alway possible your
finger slipped.

Good luck!
Steve


> Yes, good luck with the knoppix and tom's endevours... I too suffered a
> similar
> fate very recently, hard disc failure... of the absolute nastiest kind, I
> mean,
> the drive may as well have has it's plates vanish it was so bad.  Anyway,
> I was
> in the process of figuring out rsync (more irony) and didn't get a couple
> directories to rsync properly, and still trudging through the problem, the
> disc
> failure occurred, lost "some" stuff, nothing I can't live without though.
> So
> backups are so *SO* important.
>
> laters,
> David M.
>
>
> --- Jason Tower <jason at cerient.net> wrote:
>> knoppix has always been my pal in cases like this, although tom's root
>> boot disk performs a similar task (unless it doesn't have a driver for
>> whatever scsi/raid card you're using).  if knoppix/tom's can't
>> mount /dev/sdaX (not just /dev/sda) then you have either a corrupted
>> filesystem or a failed disk.
>>
>> (despite the irony, i'll avoid mentioning anything about backups)
>>
>> jason
>>
>> On Friday 14 May 2004 09:05, Mark wrote:
>> > Hi all-
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I've got major problems this morning with my samba-ldap
>> > authentication box.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Here's the pertinent information:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > RH Linux 9
>> >
>> > GRUB Bootloader
>> >
>> > Been up and running for a couple of months before I rebooted this
>> > morning.
>> >
>> > Has the following error on reboot:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > EXT3-fs: Mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
>> >
>> > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
>> >
>> > umount: /initrd/proc failed: 2
>> >
>> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 156K freed
>> >
>> > Kernel panic: no init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I've searched on the subject and found a couple of things I could
>> > try, but all involve getting into the filesystem, a task I've been
>> > unable to accomplish.  I tried passing a 'boot single' to GRUB but
>> > the same thing happens (although the error is slightly different with
>> > a 'try passing root=').  I've also tried using Tom's rescue disks,
>> > but I can't seem to mount /dev/sda (where the root partition should
>> > be).
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I've also tried booting with the linux rescue option using the Redhat
>> > Linux 9 install CD, but I wind up getting an error that no distro was
>> > found on the install cd.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm at a loss and panicky..
>> >
>> > Any ideas will be GREATLY appreciated.
>> >
>> > Mark
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