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Old 08-08-2006, 06:30 AM   #1
mikeotieno
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hi fellowz,
My system gives me an error message while booting, and gives me this error message; "kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init ! "
though i formated what could be the cause of such an error.
 
Old 08-08-2006, 06:50 AM   #2
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Old 08-08-2006, 03:33 PM   #3
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Can you provide more info about what you did before this error showed up? What do you mean by you "formatted"?
 
Old 08-11-2006, 06:32 AM   #4
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i ment i formatted my hard drive and reinstalled the system again. Now i can't get any more information about the error message i just notted down what i gave. Before the error i did shutdown the machine normally everything was running well b4 shutdown, but when i powered it on after an hour it wasn't behaving. Thanx anyway
 
  


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