On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 06:45:28AM +0000, Anim Asante wrote: > <Emmanuel.Asante@bhpbilliton.com> wrote: > > > > > From: Jerome R. Acks > > [mailto:jracksjr@bellatlantic.net] > > Sent: 24 October 2003 03:47 > > To: Anim Asante > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Kernel panic error > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:10:02AM +0100, Anim > > Asante wrote: > > > > > > > I have got a grub menu.lst file with a section > > of > > > > the > > > > > file looking like this > > > > > ?root (hd1,0) > > > > > ?kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 > > > > > ?boot > > > > > ? > > > > > When I restart my machine and select this > > option, > > > > the > > > > > boot up process begins up > > > > > to a point and it gives the following error > > > > message: > > > > > ?Warning: unable to open an initial console. > > > > > ?Kernel panic: No init found. > > > > > ?Try passing init= option to kernel. > > > > > > > I do not have any problems when I use lilo. I am > > not > > > at my machine at the moment but I will give it a > > try > > > and see what happens. > > > > Can you post the pertinent section from lilo.conf? > > > > The section from lilo.conf is as follows: > > > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hdb7 > install=/boot/boot-menu.b > map=/boot/map > image=/vmlinuz initrd=/initrd.img > label=linux > read-only > > other=/dev/hda1 > label=windows If this section in lilo boots your kernel, a comparable section in grub's menu.lst would be: title Debian/GNU linux root (hd1,6) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb7 initrd /initrd.img boot If /vmlinuz and /initrd.img are symlinks to /boot/vmlinux-2.4.xxx and /boot/initrd.img-2.4.xxx,respectively, you should replace them with the specific kernel and initrd filenames. The grub menu.lst would read: title Debian/GNU linux root (hd1,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.xxx root=/dev/hdb7 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.xxx boot If /boot is in a different partition that /dev/hdb7, "root (hd1,6)" will need to be changed to match the partition of /boot. For example: is /boot is /dev/hdb6, the grub menu.lst would be: title Debian/GNU linux root (hd1,5) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.xxx root=/dev/hdb7 initrd /initrd.img-2.4.xxx boot To be more definitive, you will need to spply more info. Post your /etc/fstab and the kernel and initrd.img filenames in /boot. If you run grub in a terminal, you can determine the appropriate file names and root device by using grub's find command. -- Jerome
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