Kernel Panic

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Vishesh kumar wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Jonathan Billings
> <jsbillin at umich.edu>wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Ravi Taleria <ravi.taleria at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> > I am getting following error while booting my rhel-4 server.
>> >
>> > exec of init (/sbin/init) failed !!!: 2
>> > umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
>> > kernel panic – not syncing. Attempted to kill init!
>> >
>> > PFA is snapshot.
>> >
>> > Kindly help me to get this resolve on urgent basis.

>> It sounds like your system's initrd can't execute init.  Do any of your
>> other kernels listed in your GRUB bootloader work?  If not, you'll
>> probably want to boot off the rescue disk and try running 'fsck' on your
>> filesystems.  While in the rescue disk, try chrooting into the
>> filesystem to make sure /sbin/init exists and is executable.
>> >
> There seems some issue with intrd. The init script file of initrd is not
> working as aspected. Booting in different kernel will help here.
>
Boot either to an older kernel, or a rescue disk, chroot to the new
kernel, and mkinitrd.

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