Re: Kernel panic: No init found.

[sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:09:50PM -0500, Reid Mumford wrote:
> EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> change_root: old root has d_count=1
> Trying to unmount old root ... okay
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
> Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel
> 
> Any ideas on how to save this system without having to reinstall?

try booting up with init=/bin/sh and see if you can get yourself
a root prompt.  if so, you're golden.  you might need to
reinstall some packages (like sysvinit), and i don't know what
the easiest way is to find packages that might have corrupted
files though.


hth
	sean

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