Re: Kernel panic: Attepmted to kill init!

2004-12-05 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:41:03PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > usb stick is just like any other scsi disk > - but additionally, you have to have all the usb support > in addition to scsi support built into the kernel or modules Chad's error suggests to me that the debian installer isn't

Re: Kernel panic: Attepmted to kill init!

2004-12-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Sam Watkins wrote: > Here is a webpage about getting linux to boot off a usb drive: > > http://www.simonf.com/usb/ > > I dobut if the debian installer copes with a usb drive as root automatically. sure it can .. usb stick is just like any other scsi disk - but a

Re: Kernel panic: Attepmted to kill init!

2004-12-05 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 03:22:07PM -0600, Johnson, Chad wrote: > I have a gig of ram 2.80 P4, Dell (school computer using USB HDD). The error you got suggests that the boot disk can't load the root filesystem, probably what is wrong is that your boot disk is not able to load the root filesystem of

Re: Kernel panic: Attepmted to kill init!

2004-12-05 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 09:08:19PM -0600, Johnson, Chad wrote: > I finished installing Debian (took a break for a while) and now when I try to > boot using the GRUB floopy the installer created, I get > > /sbin/init: 426: cannot open dev/console: No such file > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill in

Kernel panic: Attepmted to kill init!

2004-12-04 Thread Johnson, Chad
I finished installing Debian (took a break for a while) and now when I try to boot using the GRUB floopy the installer created, I get /sbin/init: 426: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! What do I do now? Chad