kernel panic at boot
 

Hi,

I just finished installing FC5 as a guest on an VMWare machine. Everything was pretty much vanilla, going quite smoothly. However the other day I forgot to go through the usual linux shutdown process before stopping the VMWare server, sort of a "virtual power failure". Now I can't boot (see the captured screen below). I was able to see the lvm disk by using a live-cd (gentoo), fsck'd (clean) and mount it on some mountpoint, but again can't boot, not even in single user mode. Any tips will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Dan

Loading dm-zero.ko module
Loading dm-snapshot.ko module
making device-mapper control node
Scanning logical volumes
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group ''VolGroup00'' using metadata type lvm2
Activating logical volumes
2 logical volume(s) in volume group ''VolGroup00'' now active
Trying to resume from /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
No suspend signature on swap, not resuming.
Creating root device.
mounting root filesystem.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Setting up other filesystems.
Setting up new root fs
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
Switching to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[<c011b28a>] panic+0x3e/0x170 [<c011de3a>] do_exit+0x71/0x6c8
[<c0146f19>] do_munmap+0x184/0x19e [<c011e515>] sys_exit_group+0x0/0xd
[<c0102be9>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb _

Re: kernel panic at boot
 

Any suggestions on my previous posting?

Dan