Re: Kernel panic: NO INIT FOUND, but seems to be there.
Hi!
Thank you for your answer. I have tried passing to the boot prompt
linux root=/dev/hda9 init=/sbin/init,
but the result is the same as before. Actually /sbin is on the root
partition.
I guess the reason why my system hanged, was that I tried suspending to
disk while my ethernet card was working. It hanged while writing
a huge list of messages on the console. I shut the power down, and now it
does not work.
Do you have any other ideas what to try? Should I reinstall everything? I
hope there is something more to try.
Thank you very much
Alessandro
On 22 Apr 2002, Crispin Wellington wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 15:08, Alessandro Ghigi wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > My laptop hanged, and I shut it down. Afterwards it cannot boot.
> > After loading linux, it stops saying roughly
> >
> >
> > Partition check
> > hda: hda1 ....
> > apm: Bios version ...
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesyustem) readonly.
> > Freeing unused memory ...
> >
> > Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
> >
> >
> > I have tried passing the option init=/sbin/init, and also init=/bin/sh. It
> > did not work. So I downloaded a rescue image, and with that I was able to
> > boot with a root on the floppy. I have checked the root
> > partition on the hard disk: /sbin/init is there and is ok (I have
> > replaced it with a copy from another system), and also inittab looks
> > ok. But the original root partition still does not work and gives the
> > same message.
> >
> > The last time this happened to me (alas is not the first one!) I
> > reinstalled everything. I hope somebody can advise some softer way to proceed.
>
> This is very strange! Especially to happen twice! What are you doing to
> your system?
>
> Is the filesystem that the kernel is mounting as root really the root
> filesystem? Or is it mounting another filesystem thinking it is root? Is
> sbin in that filesystem? Try passing the root= parameter to the kernel
> as well with the root partition. eg. linux root=/dev/hda3
> init=/sbin/init.
>
> Copying init from another system may have been very bad if that system
> had init compiled against a different libc.
>
> What were you doing before this happened? Was it a kernel upgrade gone
> wrong?
>
> Crispin
>
>
>
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