On Thursday 15 August 2002 7:15 am, scotty at cloudnet.com wrote: > Help, I messed up. > > I have a dual boot workstation with Redhat 7.2 and W2k. Yesterday I > applied sp3 to W2k and ran Partition Magic's drive mapper (changing the > mapping of the a W2k drive from an E to G). Now I can not start RedHat. Is this all on one drive? Or multiple drives? Where is Linux installed on the drive? > I get a message stating; > > Kernel panic: No init found. > Try passing init= option to kernel I got this error once when I forgot to put in the initrd image. I think it can also happen when you use initrd, and / cant be mounted (is this correct?) > I have tried the linux rescue option on the install disk. I have looked > at my lilo.conf and tried to run lilo but I get a message that states > that it can not find /etc/lilo.conf even after running 'chroot > /mnt/sysimage'. > > What suggestions do you have? Do I hve to reinstall the OS? I assume that since you took a look at the file, everything looks ok in it. Try using the -v option to get more output about whats going on. Also, try lilo -v -C /etc/lilo.conf and see if that helps. Another one to try before you chroot is lilo -v -r /mnt/sysimage