[TriLUG] Re: Kernel Panic - any takers?

[Lance A. Brown]

Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
>  
> ...Oh, and the error messages that occur upon an attempted boot are:
> 
> Everything looks fine until:
> .
> .
> .
> .
> Creating root device
> mkrootedev: label / not found
> mounting root filesystem
> mount: error 2 mounting ext3
> pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
> umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
> Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing blah blah blah...


Boot a system rescue CD of some sort and make sure the initrd image 
for the kernel you are booting from the hard drive still exists.  It 
may have been wiped out in the fsck.  If it is gone, you'll have to 
rebuild it using mkinitrd.

--[Lance]

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