Re: Kernel panic

On Thu Mar 20 2003 at 08:06, Jim Reigle wrote:

> I was running a fairly resourse-intensive program yesterday and
> my Red Hat 7.2 system crashed.  I manually turned the computer
> off and on again but the computer halts booting with the following
> error:
> 
> Kernel Panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.

Ouch, that's not good.

> I have been using Red Hat linux for a while, but I am not an expert.  I
> tried booting with the boot disk and the same error
> was received.
> 
> Any help would be provided.

You'll be best to use the rescue mode of the installer, then from
there look at the state of your partitions, configuration files and
so on.

> Thank you.
> 
> Jim Reigle

Good luck.

Cheers
Tony