On Monday 17 January 2005 05:53 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > On Monday 17 January 2005 12:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | This morning I turned my PC on, went off to make my coffee, when I came > | back it had this message: > | > | Kernal panic: No Init found. Try passing init= option to kernal > | > | > | what happened???? it was going great last night when I shut it down!! > | then this :( > | > | and how do i fix it? > > More information is needed. Hardware can cause this (hd went titsup for > examp). Less extreme is a software error. Try booting to failsafe. Or, > try with the first install disk for recovery, and see if you can mount the > root drive that way. > > mkdir /mnt/hd > > chroot /mnt/hd > > cd /etc/ > > vi lilo > > and then > > Check to see that everything lilo (or /boot/menu.lst for grub) is pointing > to actually exists where lilo thinks it should be. > > You will also find the rest of your drive (if it is working) > > If so, there is an option for re-installing the boot loader while in the > recovery mode. > > If it were my system, my first inclination would be to boot with a Knoppix > disk and have a look around to see if I could figure out what went wrong. > Booting with Knoppix will show you all your drive's files and is the > quickest option, if you have a disk, that is. > > e if it was me, I would use the mandrake install disk 1 and when it offered f1 for other options or enter to install, go for f1 and then go for rescue, hit enter when propmpted about 3 times, remove the disk when told and reboot... -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website="http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org";
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