Re: [TCLUG:17873] Kernel Panic, No init found?

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Nan Tu wrote:
> 
> I have a computer with Win98/2K and RH6.0. I use NTLD to boot into each OS.
> Everything works fine until I went in Win2K and deleted one Windows
> partition that is right infront of RH partition. When I boot into RH, I got:
> hda: had1, hda2 (hda5,hda6,.....12) hda3
> hdb: hdb1(hdb5)hda2
> auto detecting RAID arrays
> auto run
> VFS: Mounted root (ext 2 filesystem)
> Freeing unused kernel memory 68k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console
> Kernel panic: No init found, Try passing init=option to kernal.
> 
> I recreat the partition that was deleted from Win2K. I still have the same
> problem.

Well, you should probably start off with a boot/recovery disk and mount
the various partitions on your hard drives to make sure that the
partition is still there and hasn't been corrupted.  It's possible that
the partitions are ordered differently for whatever reason, meaning that
you need to change the root device in your LILO configuration.

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