if you are trying to boot the machine without any ram and getting that error, please correct me if i am wrong, it could be because 2.4 kernels try to load initrd onto a ram-drive first. what does the exact error message say when you try to boot the system with ram? one thing you can do is get a live disc (or use the first disc of whichever distro you are using), get a shell from that (they all provide different ways of getting there. some need to be passed "rescue" on the boot loader prompt of the cd etc) and try mounting your fs there. see if everything seems to be intact. you can try chrooting into the root (/) fs on the hdd and exploring. if you use lilo, try running lilo from the chroot-ed environment. did you swap hard-drives recently? did the computer reboot by itself/power failure? could it be that you use ext2 filesystem?
sharad birmiwal On 11/2/05, Manish Popli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I m using 2.4.21-4.Elsmp kernel.it <http://kernel.it> <http://kernel.it> > went down suddenly and > when i reboot, it was not able to found the boot record.. > after that i plughed out a slot of 512mb ram from it and tryed to boot > it..M/c got start but i was facing the error... > *Kernel* *panic*: *no* *init* *found*. Try passing *init*= option to > *kernel > *. > any one solve my problem there is critical data in this HDD.. > -- > Manish Popli > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
