On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 10:19, Andy Pace wrote: > I have a dell 1650 server running RedHat 7.3 that has the following error on > boot: > > Warning: unable to open initial console > kernel panic. no init found. try passing init= to the kernel > > The hardware setup is three scsi drives on a hardware raid5 card. The raid > card is fine > > I can boot into rescue mode and mount the paritions fine: > > mkdir /hdd > mount /dev/sda2 /hdd > mount /dev/sda1 /hdd/boot > mount /dev/sda6 /hdd/vz > > But when i change directory to /hdd/etc/ it is empty! Also, i found out > that i can't write any files into the etc/ directory. It gives me an input > output error. > > Is there any way i can reinstall redhat without corrupting or deleting the > existing data? I have backups of the /etc/ directory, but they are old and > for some reason only the directories got backed up, no lilo.conf. > > I am using lilo for my bootloader
I had a problem like this a year or so ago and it was a missing dir. Does the directory /initrd exist? If not try making it with root:root ownership and 755 perms. If its there then I'm not sure what it would be. It is basically a mount point for the init fs that is utilized at boot. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
