kernel panic on bootup

MattJohnson · 11-24-2004, 04:28 AM

hi
i just had a bit of a system crash on fedora core 3 and now I keep getting kernel panic messages when i try to boot the system.

The last messages are:

EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
switching to new root
enforcing mode requested but no policy loaded. Halting now
kernel panic - not syncing: attempting to kill init

Will i have to do a full reinstall or is there another way to recover the system?

jkobrien · 11-24-2004, 06:05 AM

If you have a rescue disk, or your installation disks, you should be able to reboot and fix whatever the problem is.

John

benjithegreat98 · 11-24-2004, 11:05 AM

When you get access w/ a recovery disk see if you can disable SELinux. I'm not an SELinux expert but based on the line that says "enforcing mode requested but no policy loaded" I would guess that is the problem. You can change this in the /etc/selinux/config file. I have my system set to SELINUX=disabled and SELINUXTYPE=targeted . The file is pretty self-documenting so you can hopefully figure that out. If that is not the problem then I don't know what else it would be. Good luck.

MattJohnson · 11-24-2004, 11:18 AM

thanx for that, finally got it sorted ok by disableing selinux as u said. Wierd that it would do that, but guess it gave me something to do for a day

thanx
Matt Johnson