"Kernel panic"

apokryphos · 10-02-2004, 03:28 AM

I installed Windoze on one of the partitions of my hard-disk, and I was told that I'd likely have to re-install the bootloader. Anyhow, I've done that, and now -- Linux doesn't start up. I get the message (after lilo):

kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to the kernel.

Any idea how I'd go about doing the latter?

MartinN · 10-02-2004, 03:41 AM

Hi!

Give us your /etc/lilo.conf file and the output from
/sbin/fdisk -l
(option is a lower-case L)

Martin

apokryphos · 10-02-2004, 04:07 AM

Thanks for your time. Hmm; etc/lilo.conf doesn't seem to exist. I've definitely got Lilo installed -- it starts up, but it doesn't seem to be in that folder. I can't do a locate, whereis or a find in the console there though, so I don't know how I'd locate it.

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and the output from
/sbin/fdisk -l

I get some info:

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Disk /dev/hdb: 122.9 GB , 122942324736 bytes
16 Heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096

Device
/dev/hdb1..
" " " 2
3
4
5
6

....and it has a lot more info, -- let me know if it's all needed. The odd thing I found was that the only thing that had a * under "Boot" was the one on the Windows NTFS partition.. isn't that a little odd?

Ya don't think I'm going to have to reinstall or anything, do you?

MartinN · 10-02-2004, 04:18 AM

You say you don't have a lilo.conf, but you use lilo.

Are you sure you don't use grub? If so, you should have a file called '/etc/grub.conf'. Please post the contents of that file and the full output of fdisk -l

You don't need to type it all in. Copy the files to a floppy. I once wrote a general description on how to move files to a floppy:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...112#post684112

Use cp to copy /etc/grub.conf to a floppy. Then issue these commands (as root):
cd
/sbin/fdisk -l > fdisk.txt
This will send the output from fdisk to a file (fdisk.txt) in the /root directory. Copy that file to floppy too.

Martin

apokryphos · 10-02-2004, 05:06 AM

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Originally posted by MartinN
[B]You say you don't have a lilo.conf, but you use lilo.

I was just as confused as you were.

No idea why there isn't a file... I did a simple "re-install bootloader" using the Mandrake CD.

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Are you sure you don't use grub?

As sure as I can be.

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You don't need to type it all in. Copy the files to a floppy.

Ahh, I should have thought of that. Thanks. Here's ls -l /etc:

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total 786
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 Oct 2 10:01 HOSTNAME
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162 Jun 21 2001 fstab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 Jun 21 2001 group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26 Jun 21 2001 host.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27 Jun 21 2001 hosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 390 Jun 21 2001 inittab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1724 Jan 6 2004 inputrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1676 Feb 23 2004 issue
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 Oct 2 10:02 mtab
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24756 Sep 22 2003 oem*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24822 Sep 22 2003 oem-all*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101 Jun 21 2001 passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 579 Mar 4 2003 profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5809 Jan 6 2004 protocols
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 75 Jun 21 2001 rc.reboot*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 963 Jul 10 2003 rc.sysinit*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38 Jun 21 2001 resolv.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18969 Jan 6 2004 services
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 703515 Jul 24 2003 termcap

And /sbin/fdisk -l:

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Disk /dev/hdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 152456 76837792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 152457 154694 1127952 5 Extended
/dev/hdb3 * 154695 195328 20479536 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb4 195329 238216 21615552 83 Linux
/dev/hdb5 152457 152663 104296+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 152664 154694 1023592+ 82 Linux swap

MartinN · 10-02-2004, 05:28 AM

Sorry, I don't use Mandrake myself, so I don't know the boot options for it.

Can anybody else post a pretty "vanilla" lilo.conf for Mandrake 10? That way, we may be able to modify it to work. Thanks!

But I do wonder where your lilo.conf has gone?

Martin

apokryphos · 10-02-2004, 10:19 AM

Thanks for your help; I figure I'll put in a thread on the Mandrake sub-forum requesting the file, since people are more likely to respond, if they can, there.