[newbie] Fw: Kernel panic: No Init found

[Rafael P�rez Dom�nguez]

Friends, I don't know if this is a good address to ask for help, if not please let me know.   I've read in the net a set of emails concerning this problem, but they are too intricated to me. I use Linux as sw application designer, I�m not an expert at all in installation nor system internals, so I need some easy help if possible.   I've been working for months with Mandrake 8.1, kernel 2.4.8-26mdk. It was installed by some other person in a Windows-XP partition I'm not familiar with (glups!). At the startup I must always press <scape>, then type 'linux nobiospnp' in order to avoid some initial problem I don't remember already.   Today I've done the same as always, the Welcome/Bienvenido/etc screen has displayed, then the error message has appeared. I don�t know even how to proceed from this point on, so I've just switched-off and retried with the same result, etc.   Is there any help available at my extremely poor administrator level?   Many thanks in advance,       Rafael P�rez Dom�nguez     Madrid - Spain