Re: Kernel Panic

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 05:08:50PM -0500, eric k. wolven wrote:
> Fellow debians:
> 
>  Up until now I have had no problems compiling kernels.  I used the latest 
> "make-kpkg" on the downloaded kernel-source-2.2.15, dpkg'd it, lilo reports 
> successful install and on re-boot I get the following message:
> 
> "kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno 8"
> Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init=option to kernel."
> 
> 
> Can anybody give me a clue as to what is going on and how to fix it?  I'm a 
> relative newbie.

Boot from a rescue disk and rebuild your kernel.  You want to be
careful about what you make as modules.  Specifically, don't make ELF
executables a module.

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