Booting halfway stop!!!! Kernel Panic, No init found!!!!
I installed Slackware 9.1 from scratch. Everything was fine without any error during the installation
process. Each time the PC starts, lilo boots, it seems ok. But it will stop half way and prompted Kernel panic. No init found. Below was the error message from the screen: Freeing unused kernel memory, 116k freed. Warning:unable to open an console. Kernel panic. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. Can any Slack guru please help me. urgent! Thank you. I make 3 partition ie, / (hda4), /boot(hda3), /swap(hda6). I make it dual boot with Windows 2000(hda1) My fdisk -l showed this: Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3738 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 1305 10482381 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1306 2626 10610932+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda3 * 2627 2657 249007+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 2658 3738 8683132+ 83 Linux /dev/hda5 1306 2610 10482381 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 2611 2626 128488+ 82 Linux swap I installed lilo to the superbloack. The content of my lilo.conf is : # LILO configuration file # generated by 'liloconfig' # # Start LILO global section boot = /dev/hda #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. prompt timeout = 300 # Normal VGA console vga = normal # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k # vga=791 # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k # vga=790 # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256 # vga=773 # VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k # vga=788 # VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k # vga=787 # VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256 # vga=771 # VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k # vga=785 # VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k # vga=784 # VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256 # vga=769 # ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting # End LILO global section # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda3 label = Slack read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking # Linux bootable partition config ends # DOS bootable partition config begins other = /dev/hda1 label = Windows2000 table = /dev/hda # DOS bootable partition config ends |
Device files in /dev?
Boot up using your install disk and mount /dev/hda3 to /mnt. Then check to see if the device files are present in /mnt/dev. This folder should contain ~ 200 files. Look specifically for files named tty0, tty1, etc.
I had a similar error and it turned out that I had no devices in /dev. Let me know what you find... Edit: clarification |
I had this problem too... and... well i found a solution on a gentoo manual... i'm not quite sure if it's ok to do this, but it worked for me and maybe works for you.
Just boot from the bootdisk that the installation generate and vi the lilo.conf file # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda3 label = Slack read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking append="root=/dev/hda3 init=/linuxrc" # Linux bootable partition config ends as you can see i just added the append line and it worked for me... i hope it works for u. See ya! Orgulloso miembro de "Colima Libre" |
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