Kernal Panic

[shuiend]

i recently tried SuSE live eval 8.1 to make sure it worked for my friend. When i tried booting back into Red Hat 8 i get a kernal panic saying something is worng with init and it says i should try to pass init. I am not sure what is wrong with it and was wondering if you guys could help. I dont think it was SuSE but it could be it. I did not mount my Linux partion with it so that y i dont think it was that. i do not want to reinstall and i just happen not to have a boot disk but i have the cd's to boot with those and try things.

[Stryker]

quote:Originally posted by wild_jester / BOB:
i recently tried SuSE live eval 8.1 to make sure it worked for my friend. When i tried booting back into Red Hat 8 i get a kernal panic saying something is worng with init and it says i should try to pass init. I am not sure what is wrong with it and was wondering if you guys could help. I dont think it was SuSE but it could be it. I did not mount my Linux partion with it so that y i dont think it was that. i do not want to reinstall and i just happen not to have a boot disk but i have the cd's to boot with those and try things.

I haven't had it happen in the same situation, but i got a kernel panic after recompiling the kernel. What does your /boot/grub/grub.conf file say? You may want to try recompiling your kernel with support for every filesystem you recognize. (ext2, ext3, vfat, fat, ntfs *shiver*, jfs, and such) maybe suse copied over yours or something.

[voidmain]

Sounds like Lilo or GRUB has changed. But it apparently is getting to the kernel or you wouldn't get a panic. You might want to try to pass the kernel some options at the boot prompt like "ro root=/dev/hda1" (replace "/dev/hda1" with the partition that you believe to be your root file system. You could also boot SuSe Live back up and check out which partition really is your RedHat root partition. Do you have access to another machine running RedHat 8 in which you could make a boot disk from?

[shuiend]

as of right now i donot have another Red Hat 8 system to make a boot disk from. Is there a way i can do it from the command line if i boot off the cd's?

[voidmain]

Have you tried booting into rescue mode from your CD? See this and this.

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]