> Kenel panic : No init found > Try passing init = option to kernel > after which nothing happens except that the caps lock and scroll lock keep > flashing.
That's kindo of like booting up DOS without command.com, but not exactly, and probably worse. init is always the first process to start and all other processes descend from it. Not being able to find an init is not a very good thing. What probably happened is that the partition you boot from is somehow damaged - or maybe you are trying to boot from the wrong partition. > Any suggestions as to how to get the machine to boot will be gratefully > received - or should I just wait to upgrade to 9.1 - which, I assume, will > fix the problem. upgrading might fix the problem but this should be fixable with a rescue disk or something. You can try booting from the lilo command line (the boot: prompt) and add something like: boot: linux single init=/bin/sh (I think I have that right) - it would bring up the box in single user mode with just a shell prompt, letting you do some basic admin commands to fix whatever is wrong.) > John
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