Hi All,
I am a newbie so excuse the ignorance. I have just installed Redhat 9 Server from a cdrom that came with a book but I get the following error on first boot
Kernel Panic: Attempting to kill init.

The hardware details: A MSI K7 Mainboard KM4M-V AMD Sempron 2200 chipset. 256 DDR which I have swapped for a 512 DDR after I encountered the above problem. The HDD is 80gig which I manually partitioned on the 1st install. I then run install again but I went for the auto partition but same problem. The HDD and CDrom are on seperate IDE cables as master on IDE0 and IDE1 respectively. I have run memtest86 on both rams and they checked out okay. I have been able to run WindowsXP on the box with no problems. The box has at the moment only got Linux on it.
I have also tried to create a new initrd file via the use of the rescue cd by using the chroot /mnt/sysimage and the mkinitrd command and still no joy.
I am using Grub as my bootloader.

Please can anyone help a newbie out with concise instructions on what to try and if you require anymore information please ask.

This box will be used asa webserver.

Thanks in advance.

try the trouble-shooter
http://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...;postid=1413211

if no joy post your /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst files

I don't use your distro tho

More information about your partition table and setup is needed. The full error output could be interesting, too, in order to know which kernel it booted with what parameters.

Please be aware that Red Hat Linux 9 has reached end-of-life a long time ago and is unsupported. Only the Fedora Legacy Project still provides free security updates and critical bug fixes for Red Hat Linux 9.