Sorry, I wasn't in front of the machine in question at the time of the message. It is "Kernel Panic: no init found" My inittab has the proper entry and to my lilo config is fine i'm assuming. (attached) Any ideas? On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > I seem to be getting a kernal error on bootup. For some reason its > > telling me I need to provide an init number. I would assume this would be > > 3 as I want it to go multiuser, but unfortunately, I don't know where to > > put this. I've buggered something up and am now quite confused.. :) > > > > I'm using kernel 2.2.12 on Mandrake 6.0. The kernal is also placed and > > configured in lilo in / as I am a slackware convert. :) > > > What is the EXACT error you're getting??? >
# inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up # the system in a certain run-level. # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) id:3:initdefault: # System initialization. si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0 l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2 l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3 l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4 l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5 l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6 # Things to run in every runlevel. ud::once:/sbin/update # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes # of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now. # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your # UPS connected and working correctly. pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down" # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it. pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled" # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 # Run xdm in runlevel 5 # xdm is now a separate service x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
boot = /dev/hda timeout = 50 prompt vga = normal read-only map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b image = /vmlinuz label = linux root = /dev/hda1 other = /dev/hdb1 label = dos table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to =0x81 map-drive=0x81 to =0x80
