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Old 04-27-2009, 11:09 AM   #1
kaplan71
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Kernel panic on system boot


Hi there --

One of our systems is running in a dual boot environment with Red Hat 9 and Windows XP Professional as the operating systems. The GRUB boot loader is the device used for the dual boot.

The Red Hat 9 operating system is unable to complete the boot process, but the Windows XP environment is working without a problem. The problem with the former occurs during the boot process. The errors shown below indicate the problem:

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ext3: No journal on filesystem
mount error 22 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot-root (sysroot,sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
kernel panic: No init found Try passing init= option to kernel
The kernel in question is the 2.4.20-8smp release. What steps do I need to take in order to correct this problem? Thanks.
 
Old 04-27-2009, 04:10 PM   #2
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RH9 - long ago and far away. And no longer supported I suspect (hint - upgrade sometime ...)
Try mounting that filesystem from a liveCD and fsck it. Maybe even mount it as ext2 and see if it looks o.k.
 
  


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