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Old 02-17-2011, 10:55 PM   #1
chymeira
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unable to boot slackware 13.1


Hello Everyone,

I am a slackware 13.1 user , and for the first time today I tried to use slackpkg to update my chromium ( I did everything by hand before ), but unfortunately it did something .... while it was prompting everything it was doing , I saw it removing all my main utilities such as exec, grep, sh ....
After the operation completed , I was unable to run anything , everything I clicked on generated the message ( I dont actually remember clearly ) KDE/init/ ' unable to open terminal '

Now that I rebooted my system , I get the following error :

++ Kernel Panic - Not syncing : no init found , Try passing init = option to kernel.

Ive looked up some forums and the ways they suggest does not work . Could I please get some info on this.

Thank you in advance.
 
Old 02-18-2011, 08:13 AM   #2
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Have you tried to boot it with the installion DVD...boot the DVD and just type at the prompt...

Quote:
hugesmp.s root=/dev/sda* rdinit=ro
insert your partition number in place of * I really dont know if it will boot though... worth a try ? this just a guess

Last edited by hughetorrance; 02-18-2011 at 08:14 AM. Reason: typo
 
Old 02-18-2011, 02:55 PM   #3
chymeira
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Thx a lot for the reply , I tried it but it still gets stuck on the same error, why does it need me to specify the init option I had that in my inittab file
 
Old 02-18-2011, 06:21 PM   #4
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Moved: This thread is more suitable in <Slackware> and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.
 
Old 02-18-2011, 06:42 PM   #5
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Where did you get chromium from, and how did you install it? Slackpkg is usually used to update software that comes by default, not packages from elsewhere.

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