Kernel Panic: No init found

[DJ]

... Try passing it=option to kernel

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

I feel like such a newb!!!

I tried to install Mandrake 9.0 on the 5GB drive I have, and use it as a secondary drive on my main machine. It installed just fine, then it set the boot loader to what I assumed to be correct, but then when it rebooted:

Ext3-fs: unable to read superblock

mount=error 22 mounting ext3 flags

Kernel Panic: No init found...

I put the install disk back in and tried to "reset boot loader" back to windows, but no go, it didn't fix the linux boot loader (which I tried first), is there anyway to recover this or should I just start over?

And for future reference, should I just install on the 5GB drive for linux and the other for windows? I really wanted to dual boot. I would appreciate it greatly if anyone could help, I would just STW but I have a huge report due tomorrow and I need to use my computer. Thanks

Dj

[ November 24, 2002: Message edited by: Engineer ]

[KernelPanic]

I suggest you reinstall (making sure to install GRUB on the MBR).

[DJ]

Well I don't wanna give up on Linux and I would like to have Linux on the 5G drive for now and windows on my other is that possible or should I just make 2 partitions on my main and use one for Windows and one for Linux?

Dj

[DJ]

Windows is pissing me off, I'm installing Linux on the entire drive, I still have a copy of part of my speech so I am not at a total loss, thanks for all of your help everyone, be back soon, on Linux hopefully

Dj

[KernelPanic]

How are you getting along?

[DJ]

Went out of town to help my grandmother move,  waiting for my new vid card to arrive, and contemplating building a new box for linux instead of continuing to use this PII 266

good though thanks for asking,

Dj