Re: kernel panic, no init found

[Paul Miller <pmiller@jove.acs.unt.edu>]

Jianming YOU wrote:
> 
> Hi, Paul,
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> I followed your suggestion. Here is what I did and what I got:
> 
> Boot from a floppy, with kernel 2.0.35
> login as root
> 
> > mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
> > cd mnt
> > rm vmlinuz
> > ln -s boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34 vmlinuz
> > ls -l sbin/lilo
> -rwxr-xr-x  1  root   root   50708  Feb  2 17:31  sbin/lilo
> > sbin/lilo
> sbin/lilo: not found
> > ls -l /usr/bin/lilo
> -rwxr-xr-x  1  root   root   46740  Jul 28 1998   /usr/bin/lilo
> > lilo -r /mnt
> First boot sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature
> 
> Is it the time to re-start from scratch? I am stuck.
> Any idea?
> 
OK, when you get the 'boot:' prompt from the rescue disk type

linux root=/dev/hda2

This will boot the kernel off the floppy but use your hard drive as the
root file system. Lilo should work fine from there. Be sure that
/vmlinuz points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34


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Paul Miller
pmiller@jove.acs.unt.edu