[TriLUG] Re: Kernel Panic - any takers?

[Ralph Blach]

I have also found the knoppix as an execellent rescue cd.

Chip


Lance A. Brown wrote:

> I've used System Rescue CD for some time now on my Fedora and RHEL 
> systems with good success.  It boots, autodetects just about any kind 
> of hardware you may have, and provides most tools you'll need to help 
> recover a system.
>
> http://www.sysresccd.org/
>
> --[Lance]
>
>
> Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Lance...
>>
>> that's what I'm doing right now is finding a good floppy or CD-ROM based
>> Linux boot image... I will investigate whether the HD0 is still intact,
>> and if not, I will check out mkinitrd.
>>
>> I really appreciate your quick response.
>>
>> wab
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
>> Behalf Of Lance A. Brown
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 5:36 PM
>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
>> Subject: [TriLUG] Re: Kernel Panic - any takers?
>>
>> Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ...Oh, and the error messages that occur upon an attempted boot are:
>>>
>>> Everything looks fine until:
>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>> Creating root device
>>> mkrootedev: label / not found
>>> mounting root filesystem
>>> mount: error 2 mounting ext3
>>> pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount 
>>> /initrd/proc failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed Kernel
>>
>>
>>
>>> panic: no init found. Try passing blah blah blah...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Boot a system rescue CD of some sort and make sure the initrd image for
>> the kernel you are booting from the hard drive still exists.  It may
>> have been wiped out in the fsck.  If it is gone, you'll have to rebuild
>> it using mkinitrd.
>>
>> --[Lance]
>>
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