Kernel panic

roders22 · 08-28-2008, 08:52 AM

Ki guys,
Am having a hard time with Mandrake 10.2, when i try to boot up the system it says

Quote:

Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel

Can somebody help me to fix this please? Thanks a lot.

arunabh_biswas · 08-28-2008, 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roders22

Ki guys,
Am having a hard time with Mandrake 10.2, when i try to boot up the system it says

Can somebody help me to fix this please? Thanks a lot.

Dear roders22,

Hit a Search for the problem in this forum..Lots of post and solution in same kind of problem. I hope you get it.

roders22 · 08-28-2008, 09:24 AM

I tried a search, but for a noob like me i don't understand a word (which quite honestly a lot of forum don't understand that most of the people asking questions are real noobs learning linux like me

). Anyways i've google it and this what i came up with

Quote:

As the error says: pass a init level to the kernel. Assuming you have grub open up /boot/grub/menu.1st and add 'init=3' to the options in the config like:
Code:

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/linux-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda1 idebus=66 init=3

How do i do that?? Where do i type it? specially when there's no command prompt.

arunabh_biswas · 08-30-2008, 01:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roders22

I tried a search, but for a noob like me i don't understand a word (which quite honestly a lot of forum don't understand that most of the people asking questions are real noobs learning linux like me

). Anyways i've google it and this what i came up with

How do i do that?? Where do i type it? specially when there's no command prompt.

Dear,

When the Grub menu appears in the screen, select the entry which used to boot linux and press 'e'. After pressing 'e', three more options will appear on the screen, there you will find the the above said "kernel" entry. You have to just again press 'e' on that line (2nd line), and type whatever you got after given space. when you finished up the typing, press Enter, u'll back to the main menu (2nd screen), there u press 'b' to boot into runlevel 3.

This is just what ever you've asked.

roders22 · 09-01-2008, 01:38 AM

Ok, i've boot up the server, 2 Option came up linux or failsafe, i chose option 1 linux, straight after i pressed enter, i pressed 'e' but nothing came up it just continued in the boot sequence, and gave me the error message.

jayacharan · 09-06-2008, 06:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roders22

Ki guys,
Am having a hard time with Mandrake 10.2, when i try to boot up the system it says

Can somebody help me to fix this please? Thanks a lot.

hi,

as per my opinion the kernel panic why it happens,

b'coz you may have one hard disk for two Operating Systems,

when you are in other OS,don't touch linux file system,except (/)root

file system.

don't do next time best of luck,

now you have to reinstall your linux,

there's no way to get back Linux OS.

Regards,

Jayacharan.