Kernel panic - please help

[John O'Loughlin]

When you reboot try passing init=/bin/bash to the kernel to see if it will 
then boot. If it does is there a problem with init? the kernel is telling 
you it can't find it.

You *might* need to reinstall the package that contains init (rpm -qf 
/sbin/init )

Let me know how you go, and good luck.

John
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, JIANWEI ZHUANG wrote:

> Hi I am experiencing a Kernel panic problem. Please help...
>
> It is Redhat 7.2 Linux with kernel 2.4.7-10.
>
> First I got a Journal Superblock error and mount error 22, so I used Linux
> Rescue in installation CD, ran e2fsck /dev/hda2, fixed and cleared all
> errors until hda2 was clean.
>
> After I reboot it, I have another error:
> pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 220K freed
> Kernel panic Kernal Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to
> kernel.
>
> Here is the file system
> /dev/hda1 * 1 7 52888+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 8 742 5556600 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 743 776 257040 82 Linux swap
>
> What should I do next?
>
> Thanks,
> JW
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