Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can no longer boot my Woody laptop. Here are the last few lines of > boot up: > > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. > Freeing unused kernel momory 208k freed > kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > > I use GRUB and have tried adding the kernel parameters 'init=/sbin/init' > and 'init=/bin/bash'. No dice.
Hmm. Are you specifying the right root= partition? If you have multiple partitions, it sounds like the kernel could be picking one that really is a valid ext3 filesystem but isn't the one that contains /sbin, etc. title Linux (Kernel 2.4.20) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 root=/dev/hda2 Remember that Linux's /dev/hda typically corresponds to GRUB's (hd0), and that Linux's partition numbers are one higher than GRUB's. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
