Kernel panic, can't boot

lymph · 01-03-2005, 10:44 AM

Hello,

My laptop running RedHat 9 has a problem. I think that it ran out of power during shutdown. Now, when I try to boot, I get a Kernel panic - init not found. I put in the RedHat rescue CD and the drives fsck'ed clean. I mounted them and most of my data looks in tact - but /sbin and a couple others are messed up. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Here are digital pictures of the screens:

hteeteeppp://jartz.beevomit.org/onboot.jpg

hteeteeppp://jartz.beevomit.org/ls_root.jpg

Thanks.

damicatz · 01-03-2005, 10:48 AM

It looks like it's trying to mount an Initial Ramdrive (INITRD) Image and it's failing because it can't find it or it's corrupt. I think perhaps if it ran out of power during shutdown that it could have caused some file system corruption.

As for the solution I do not know how Redhat Works with it's kernel setup so the best advice I can give you is to backup your data and reinstall.