Kernel panic

[Dan]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Okay, I've been through this before with FC4.  I just upgraded a 
> system from Fc2 to FC5 and the upgrade went just fine until I 
> rebooted.  Now, I'm getting the dreaded
>
> Kernel panic - attempt to kill init
>
> message on boot.  There's also a bizarre message saying there was no 
> disk in /dev/hdd?  What's the deal here?
>
>
How many hard drives do you have? IDE/SATA/SCSI? While in grub hit c to 
go to a prompt, and enter the command geometry (hd0) or substitute 
whatever hd the boot command is using, to find out more about what it's 
thinking.
-Dan