Kernel panic - please help

[John O'Loughlin]

I don't think he needs to reinstall grub (in fact on redhat 7.2 it might 
even be lilo) since his kernel is loaded otherwise wouldn't give a message 
about being unable to find init.

John

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Waleed Harbi wrote:

> check root path in /etc/fstab and then reboot the systen and boot from
> Rescue CD,then run this command to fix grub grub-install /dev/hda
> by the way kernel panic it is general message.
>
> On 7/19/06, JIANWEI ZHUANG <jianwei.z at gmail.com> 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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