Big Help Needed Bad! Please!!!!!!!!!!!

chris82 · 03-05-2004, 06:49 PM

Well, here is my story. I had Windows 98 SE on a Gateway Astro PC, and wen't out and bought Redhat 9. I tried installing it countless times, only to be countered with the following line when I booted:
"Linux APM Flags 0x0b version Xx" Someone on this forum told me to argue the kernal arguments before booting with "linux apm=off" It worked, but now, the line says "kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel"

WHAT DO I DO?

rberry88 · 03-05-2004, 08:28 PM

Okay, let's back up a bit. You said you installed RedHat to your hard drive, correct?? If so, then what partition structure did you use during the install, tell us where /boot, /root and swap are (for example hda1=/boot, hda2=/root, hda3=swap). Then tell us if you remember if you installed a bootloader during the install and where you installed it to, MBR or /boot or /root. Then we will need to know what kernel you installed.

rberry88

german · 03-06-2004, 01:07 AM

it sounds like your kernel is looking for an initrd. man initrd or change your bootloader config to use one which is already there. Do you have SCSI disks or something?

SciYro · 03-06-2004, 01:41 AM

init=/bin/init

or was it /sbin/init ?

if your using a desktop, a initrd image sholdnet be used (theres realy no point), unless you after overlystrict security, so the system always boots into teh same mode, with the same programs no matter what

chris82 · 03-06-2004, 07:20 AM

well, it says I used the GURB bootloader, even when I sometimes selected the freaking other one. I also think that the "apm" (advanced power managment) came up because it was thinking my computer was a laptop.

Also, is "init=/bin/init" what I put in?

german · 03-06-2004, 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SciYro
if your using a desktop, a initrd image sholdnet be used (theres realy no point), unless you after overlystrict security, so the system always boots into teh same mode, with the same programs no matter what

initrd's don't stop you from booting a different kernel, or messing with the bootloader, they don't provide any security at all imho. All they do is load specific kernel modules into RAM before it has done anything else, so for instance you can mount a SCSI disk as / or play a sound when the kernel loads.

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