Kernel panic. No init found
Hi folks,
Last night my box broke and am sadly back in the windoze partition. Is
there anyone out there that can rescue me?
I think it occurred while a screensaver was active in X. On booting up if
get the following message:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed.
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
I changed my grub boot line to:
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/hda1 hdc=ide-scsi apm=on init=/bin/bash
This had no effect on the problem.
I've tried booting into the original 2.2.20 kernel with the same error.
My /etc/fstab hasn't changed:
<file system> <mount
point> <type> <options> <dump>
<pass>
/dev/hda1 / ext2
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
(with the rest being the same as before)
/sbin/init exists and has executable permissions. /bin/sh
exists. /etc/inittab looks OK. I don't have /etc/init or /bin/init but
don't believe this to be important(?).
fdisk -l /dev/hda1 gives some information about blocks, then the following
error:
Disk /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid partition table.
When I boot from a CD to a command prompt and mount /dev/hda1, I get the
following error:
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free
blocks count for group 19, stored = 28907, counted = 28908
(twice more-one group error and one super block error).
I'm running woody. And I'm new to Linux so any hints would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks for your help.
Tim
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