On Tuesday 18 January 2005 02:45 am, et wrote: | On Monday 17 January 2005 05:53 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: | > On Monday 17 January 2005 12:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > | This morning I turned my PC on, went off to make my coffee, when I came | > | back it had this message: | > | | > | Kernal panic: No Init found. Try passing init= option to kernal | > | | > | | > | what happened???? it was going great last night when I shut it down!! | > | then this :( | > | | > | and how do i fix it? | > | > More information is needed. Hardware can cause this (hd went titsup for | > examp). Less extreme is a software error. Try booting to failsafe. Or, | > try with the first install disk for recovery, and see if you can mount | > the root drive that way. | > | > mkdir /mnt/hd | > | > chroot /mnt/hd | > | > cd /etc/ | > | > vi lilo | > | > and then | > | > Check to see that everything lilo (or /boot/menu.lst for grub) is | > pointing to actually exists where lilo thinks it should be. | > | > You will also find the rest of your drive (if it is working) | > | > If so, there is an option for re-installing the boot loader while in the | > recovery mode. | > | > If it were my system, my first inclination would be to boot with a | > Knoppix disk and have a look around to see if I could figure out what | > went wrong. Booting with Knoppix will show you all your drive's files and | > is the quickest option, if you have a disk, that is. | > | > e | | if it was me, I would use the mandrake install disk 1 and when it offered | f1 for other options or enter to install, go for f1 and then go for rescue, | hit enter when propmpted about 3 times, remove the disk when told and | reboot...
I did suggest this--not in so many words. But, the forensics for this sort of thing can be quite interesting, and ya ain't gonna fix it if the hd is titsup. Knoppix will "discover" this immediately. If the disk is good, I'd like a clue to what happened before I fix it. In my case, it would probably be a brain>keyboard>system problem. e
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