Kernel Panic Error!

a.abdulna · 03-05-2013, 07:29 AM

Dear Team,

One of our server suddenly restarted after that while starting RHEL 5.4, we are getting below error messages.

WARNING: can't access (null)
exec of init ((null)) failed!!!: Bad address
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Anybody please help me out ...

Regards
Abdul

Rumata · 03-05-2013, 07:45 AM

looks like your disk is bad. or mb not

a.abdulna · 03-05-2013, 07:47 AM

Hi Rumata,

What to do next, how can i resolve this problem ?

Rumata · 03-05-2013, 07:55 AM

is there anything else that the computer tells you?

a.abdulna · 03-05-2013, 08:35 AM

Nothing, am not able access rescue mode also its getting partitions not detecting..

Rumata · 03-05-2013, 08:39 AM

try to boot from something else(like livecd) and mount your boot partition. probably partition table & fs is corrupted.

vineethsp · 03-12-2013, 04:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by a.abdulna

Dear Team,

One of our server suddenly restarted after that while starting RHEL 5.4, we are getting below error messages.

WARNING: can't access (null)
exec of init ((null)) failed!!!: Bad address
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Anybody please help me out ...

Regards
Abdul

Try booting through Linux DVD in "linux rescue" mode
> create a directory and mount your "/" partition in it and check for your "/etc/fstab" files
> see if all the partition entries are done properly
> reboot