Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:??
I am afraid that the partition table on your disk is fried, or the partitions have taken a terrible beating. The system cannot locate the proper partition to load the initial files from. I hope you have a decent backup of your /home data, because this sounds like format and reinstall to me. But perhaps someone else has a better, less drastic solution. Paul On 01/03/1997 08:58 AM, Bulloved wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.2. Last Wednesday we had a momentary power failure. When I rebooted my computer following the power failure it hung on the Linux boot. I have spent the last two days trying to solve the problem on my own with no luck, unfortunately. Here is what I get on boot. It starts with identifying my HD and CD ROM and then starts on the file systems. It gets to mounting root file system mount error 6 mounting ext 3 flags Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. -- Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away. http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Thunderbird 0.4a Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic:??
Would it be possible to use a boot disk to access the info on the disk and edit or replace conf files? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:?? I am afraid that the partition table on your disk is fried, or the partitions have taken a terrible beating. The system cannot locate the proper partition to load the initial files from. I hope you have a decent backup of your /home data, because this sounds like format and reinstall to me. But perhaps someone else has a better, less drastic solution. Paul On 01/03/1997 08:58 AM, Bulloved wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.2. Last Wednesday we had a momentary power failure. When I rebooted my computer following the power failure it hung on the Linux boot. I have spent the last two days trying to solve the problem on my own with no luck, unfortunately. Here is what I get on boot. It starts with identifying my HD and CD ROM and then starts on the file systems. It gets to mounting root file system mount error 6 mounting ext 3 flags Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. -- Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away. http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Thunderbird 0.4a * This message is intended for the sole use of the individual and entity to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete the message. Thank you. STI Computer Services * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:??
You may attempt that to mount the partitions you want to backup, but with things sounding like they do now, editting or replacing config files will do little to no good. Something basic on the disk appears to be damaged, and that is not fixable by a config file. Paul On 11/07/2003 09:11 PM, brian wrote: Would it be possible to use a boot disk to access the info on the disk and edit or replace conf files? -Original Message- I am afraid that the partition table on your disk is fried, or the partitions have taken a terrible beating. The system cannot locate the proper partition to load the initial files from. On 01/03/1997 08:58 AM, Bulloved wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.2. Last Wednesday we had a momentary power failure. When I rebooted my computer following the power failure it hung on the Linux boot. I have spent the last two days trying to solve the problem on my own with no luck, unfortunately. Here is what I get on boot. It starts with identifying my HD and CD ROM and then starts on -- Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away. http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Thunderbird 0.4a Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:??
On Friday 07 Nov 2003 8:11 pm, brian wrote: Would it be possible to use a boot disk to access the info on the disk and edit or replace conf files? Yes. If you boot from the Install Cd#1 and at the first screen hit the button 'For more options' then type 'rescue' at the prompt. It will boot in a minimal linux and give you a menu. One option is to mount the partitions. You could then try repairing them. Another alternative is to get hold of a knoppix CD and boot from that. You will then have a full linux environment in which to repair any damage on your HD. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:??
Bulloved wrote: mounting root file system mount error 6 mounting ext 3 flags Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. After the kernel is started it attempts to mount a file system on the root device hard-coded into the kernel image itself . If the kernel cannot mount a filesystem on this device, it gives up issuing a kernel panic message. In otherwords the kernel is confused . Looks like your kernel cannot find an init script to read. But that message can be used as a sort of general purpose warning message. init is a general purpose programme found in /etc which starts certain processes, at boot time it is controlled by /etc/inittab run levels id:5:initdefault: si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit I don't know if you have tried booting on failsafe, there are a lot of semi-automatic programmes that can sometimes fix things for you. I think your file system must be fried to such an extent that it cannot find an init script to run. I don't know though. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel panic during install when formatting swap partitionon Power Mac 8600
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 16:20, Daniel Segel wrote: I'm trying to install Mandrake 8.2/PPC on a Powermac 8600/300 with 2x4GB SCSI hard drives and 192MB RAM in it. I've tried installing onto both drives, but I get the same error either way. The problem I'm having is that I get a kernel panic when the installer gets to the point of trying to format the swap partition. If I don't create a swap partition then it goes through that step just fine, but obviously I wouldn't bother continuing in that case. The weird part is that I get a similar crash when trying to install Yellowdog linux as well, but it's only the swap partition that causes a problem. I've already tried a low-level format of the drives, and I've tried putting the swap partition in different places on the drive. I also ran the Yellowdog version of parted and tried creating partitions manually - everything goes fine until I actually try to create the filesystem on the swap partition, then it blows up. Actually, if I create a really small swap partition (~10MB) then it works OK, but 128MB or larger doesn't. I haven't done any testing to determine the largest successful swap partition I can create a filesystem on. Any ideas? This has been driving me crazy for a week now. Thanks, Daniel When you're doing the installation, are you letting MDK do automatic partitioning for you? Or have you tried that? I seem to remember someone stating that there was a system for a partitioning scheme that was successful...can't quite remember it now...but it did work... I've not been following this thread until now so forgive me if I'm off here. Now I cannot offer an explanation for your problem, but one possible workaround might be to merely create that /swap partition but leave it unformatted and complete the install. When you reboot and get to desktop you can always format the swap partition and make it active from there. I think you will have to have a reasonable amount of physical memory to do this , I don't know what the minimum is, but maybe 128Mb is about right for M9.0 Just a thought. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel panic during install when formattingswap partition on Power Mac 8600
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:49, John Richard Smith wrote: I've not been following this thread until now so forgive me if I'm off here. Now I cannot offer an explanation for your problem, but one possible workaround might be to merely create that /swap partition but leave it unformatted and complete the install. When you reboot and get to desktop you can always format the swap partition and make it active from there. I think you will have to have a reasonable amount of physical memory to do this , I don't know what the minimum is, but maybe 128Mb is about right for M9.0 Just a thought. Keep in mind - it's a PPC Mac...so there are oddities to deal with that otherwise wouldn't be dealt with on a Sparc or a PC... -- Tue Jan 7 11:30:00 EST 2003 11:30am up 2 days, 14:38, 6 users, load average: 0.74, 0.38, 0.30 kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com - stephen kuhn - katherine kuhn - berkeley, nsw, au email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 5483808 - mobile: 0410-728-389 -PC/Mac/Linux/Consulting/eMarketing- * linux user: 267497 * rh 7.3+ * There once was this swami who lived above a delicatessan. Seems one day he decided to stop in downstairs for some fresh liver. Well, the owner of the deli was a bit of a cheap-skate, and decided to pick up a little extra change at his customer's expense. Turning quietly to the counterman, he whispered, Weigh down upon the swami's liver! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon
I have tried that. It doesnt work. I think the problem is with the video card i have. if that is the case will it work if i phyisically remove the video card and install linux and then insert the video card again ? Thanks Ravi --- gerCO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Follow these steps: 1. Enter to setup 2. Disable APM in power management 3. Save and Exit 4. When it appears the indicator boot: write linux text and press Enter 5. :) Greetings !!! gerCO -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Cory Enviado el: Lunes, 23 de Septiembre de 2002 05:06 p.m. Para: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Asunto: RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon Also, what video card is being used? What happens when you attempt an install in text mode? It would seem that if the problem continues across multiple distros, then hardware would be the first place I would start looking. Try a different video card. Also, you may want to look into the possibility of a bad install CD, I had a similar problem installing MDK 8.2, and then burned another copy and it worked flawless... a lot of research, time and effort was wasted on that one. (unlikely that this is the case since redhat does the same thing, but worth a shot.) -Original Message- From: ravi r [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon File: message.footer Hi, I am trying to install Mandrake8.2 on my new Athlon(XP1800+) box from the installation CDs (downloaded from one of the mirrors). The installer interface comes up and when i choose to install, it fails and issue a kernel panic. The following are the first few error msgs: vesafb:frame buffer and some hex numbers vesafb:mode is 800X600X16; line length = 1600; pages 3 vesafb:protected mode interface at c000:c590 I would like to know what is the problem and how i can get around it. I had the same problem when i tried to install redhat7.2 Other info. has win2k running( planning to make a dual boot machine) Thanks Ravi __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 02/08/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 02/08/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon
Follow these steps: 1. Enter to setup 2. Disable APM in power management 3. Save and Exit 4. When it appears the indicator boot: write linux text and press Enter 5. :) Greetings !!! gerCO -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Cory Enviado el: Lunes, 23 de Septiembre de 2002 05:06 p.m. Para: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Asunto: RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon Also, what video card is being used? What happens when you attempt an install in text mode? It would seem that if the problem continues across multiple distros, then hardware would be the first place I would start looking. Try a different video card. Also, you may want to look into the possibility of a bad install CD, I had a similar problem installing MDK 8.2, and then burned another copy and it worked flawless... a lot of research, time and effort was wasted on that one. (unlikely that this is the case since redhat does the same thing, but worth a shot.) -Original Message- From: ravi r [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon File: message.footer Hi, I am trying to install Mandrake8.2 on my new Athlon(XP1800+) box from the installation CDs (downloaded from one of the mirrors). The installer interface comes up and when i choose to install, it fails and issue a kernel panic. The following are the first few error msgs: vesafb:frame buffer and some hex numbers vesafb:mode is 800X600X16; line length = 1600; pages 3 vesafb:protected mode interface at c000:c590 I would like to know what is the problem and how i can get around it. I had the same problem when i tried to install redhat7.2 Other info. has win2k running( planning to make a dual boot machine) Thanks Ravi __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 02/08/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 02/08/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon
do you have shared video memory with an onboard video card? if so you will need to hit f1 instead of enter when first prompted to hit enter to install or upgrade. you will then need to tell the installer how much memory it can use without effecting the video memory, like this (without the quotes) linux mem=xxxM where xxx is changed to equal the amount of ram availabel to the system after subtracting for video ram. so if I had 128 meg ram, but had shared 16 megs with the video, I would type linux mem=112M On Monday 23 September 2002 01:20 pm, you wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Mandrake8.2 on my new Athlon(XP1800+) box from the installation CDs (downloaded from one of the mirrors). The installer interface comes up and when i choose to install, it fails and issue a kernel panic. The following are the first few error msgs: vesafb:frame buffer and some hex numbers vesafb:mode is 800X600X16; line length = 1600; pages 3 vesafb:protected mode interface at c000:c590 I would like to know what is the problem and how i can get around it. I had the same problem when i tried to install redhat7.2 Other info. has win2k running( planning to make a dual boot machine) Thanks Ravi __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon
Also, what video card is being used? What happens when you attempt an install in text mode? It would seem that if the problem continues across multiple distros, then hardware would be the first place I would start looking. Try a different video card. Also, you may want to look into the possibility of a bad install CD, I had a similar problem installing MDK 8.2, and then burned another copy and it worked flawless... a lot of research, time and effort was wasted on that one. (unlikely that this is the case since redhat does the same thing, but worth a shot.) -Original Message- From: ravi r [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon File: message.footer Hi, I am trying to install Mandrake8.2 on my new Athlon(XP1800+) box from the installation CDs (downloaded from one of the mirrors). The installer interface comes up and when i choose to install, it fails and issue a kernel panic. The following are the first few error msgs: vesafb:frame buffer and some hex numbers vesafb:mode is 800X600X16; line length = 1600; pages 3 vesafb:protected mode interface at c000:c590 I would like to know what is the problem and how i can get around it. I had the same problem when i tried to install redhat7.2 Other info. has win2k running( planning to make a dual boot machine) Thanks Ravi __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic Errors
Does your motherboard use shared video memory? If so this link may help http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=3994highlight=unable+mount+root derek On Thursday 19 Sep 2002 5:12 am, Robert W. Dempsey wrote: Hello - I am unable to resolve this issue and time is of the essence! Hardware - 1, Adaptec 2110S RAID Controller Revision 380E 3, Fujitsu MAN3184MP Ultra 160 10K RPM SCSI Drives 1, Intel PIII 933 MHz 2, 256MB Sticks Generic PC133 SDRAM Configuration - RAID 5, Capacity: 35044 MB, Block Size: 512 Bytes, Stripe Size: 64Kb RAID Card: Termination On, SCSI ID:7 Drives: SCSI IDs 1-2-3 Terminator on: 0 (the end of the cable) Error Messages: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 crc error6Freeing initrd memory: 2556k freed Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:03 1Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 5c1d8bca printing eip: c01099af *pde = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[c01099af] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010002 eax: dfd5bf58 (these all had numerical and alpabetical values) Stack: lots of numbers Call Trace: numbers in brackets and Code: f6 43 07 20 8b 7d 08 be 01 00 00 00 75 01 fb 0b 73 04 ff 75 0Kernel Panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not synching After this the machine locks up. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you all in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic
N E N I S T E R wrote: Hello there...I'm having a real problem hereMy linux system went down, I tried to telnet it, and nothing happens, so I'd put myself on console and nothing happends to, the screen was all black, so I'd reset manually the machine, and when it boot on, on the screen was the next alerts: Kernel Panic: No init found. Try Passing Init=option to kernel I don't really don't know, what that message means, please guide me to solve this issue. Thanks Nenister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Are you sure your hard disk is running? Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
do you have a mem=184 as part of the append statement in your lilo.conf (assuming you are booting w/lilo)? On Monday 24 June 2002 10:54 pm, you wrote: hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128 i get an error message saying: Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 52 31 c0 9c 8f ec fa c7 01 00 00 00 00 0Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! attempt to access beyond end of device if you could give me any details on how to fix the problem or if its impossible to fix, it would be great. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
Ben, try the following (I'm Assuming your trying to load Mandrake 8.2) when the splash screen comes up hit F1 then at the boot prompt type in linux mem=xxxM without the quotes and replace xxx with the amount of ram memory not shared with video. See if that won't get the install started. hope this is of help. Dave - Original Message - From: ben harker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MandrakeNewbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 10:54 PM Subject: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128 i get an error message saying: Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 52 31 c0 9c 8f ec fa c7 01 00 00 00 00 0Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! attempt to access beyond end of device if you could give me any details on how to fix the problem or if its impossible to fix, it would be great. -- www.tasmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.372 / Virus Database: 207 - Release Date: 6/20/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
On Monday 24 June 2002 09:54 pm, you wrote: hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128 i get an error message saying: Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 52 31 c0 9c 8f ec fa c7 01 00 00 00 00 0Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! attempt to access beyond end of device if you could give me any details on how to fix the problem or if its impossible to fix, it would be great. which version of Mandrake? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
im using Mandrake 8.0 On Monday, June 24, 2002 at 10:49:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 June 2002 09:54 pm, you wrote: hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128 i get an error message saying: Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 52 31 c0 9c 8f ec fa c7 01 00 00 00 00 0Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! attempt to access beyond end of device if you could give me any details on how to fix the problem or if its impossible to fix, it would be great. which version of Mandrake? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 -- www.tasmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel panic - why?
Sounds like you have disk problems again. Try booting from the install CD, press F1 and type RESCUE. It will allow you to mount your files systems under /mnt. First question then is: can you mount them? If so, try fsck. That should at least give you more data to come back to the list. HTH Brian On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 19:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi newbies non-newbies (may your tribe increase) Well, this is the second time (original install November 2001 - panic Jan 2001), So ... It may have been 'cos the 12yo exceeded his winME partition size (around 10goig), or the (apparently) faulty power source ... anyway, the hd was unable to be formatted or partitioned (needed 3 days $299 to be fixed) , so was factory formatted ... and new power supply, and the hd worked. Yay! Reinstalled Feb 21 2002, another kernel panic 28 April 2002. remember we have a new power supply and this time ample (over 2 gigs) left on WinME partition, so why did I get a kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on 03:05 this time? Is it *time* related ... can't be space or power supply related ... can it? The system (dual boot M8.0 and WinME, has been fine, until this) Pentium III 866, 256 RAM, 20 gig hd, LILO, KDE, non-graphical login, nvidia card (tnt2 riva), external dynalink rural modem ... sheesh is that enough? - Oh, it is the powerpack, but registered in Jan or Dec so can't do the expert thingy.. Help ... please, I want to go to Linux only (yes, I'll do the Transgaming thing and the CodeWeavers, and TurboPrint thing (printer is Epson 480) ... I'm lacking in $ but prepared to pay for service .. despite being in NZ - where USD mean big bucks), and my 12yo is prepared to sacrifice some short term goodies for longevity. -- Cheers and TIA and I'll remember your help UTDSFOATCCSK (Until The Desert Sands Freeze Over And The Camels Come Skating Home - old invocation from my student nursing days) Helen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!
On Sunday 14 April 2002 2:09 pm, Hong Sun wrote: Hi, All: I am pretty new with linux. Actually, this is my first time to install the Mandrake linux 8.1 (2 CD disks) to a desktop. The installation was very smooth. But after the installation and reboot, nothing happened and the screen was black! After re-login with the failsafe mode, the following error message showed up on the screen: . . EIP: 0068 [8332] . . Code: Bad EIP value 0 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! My computer has a 3D mainboard (PV40A series), a Pentium 4 CPU (1.6G), a NVIDIA TNT2 32M graphic accelerator card, a 512M memory and a 40G hard disk. A Window 98 operating system occupied first 5G hard disk in hda1, followed in the extended partition are the 517M swap partition (logical), 2.5G \ partition (logical) and 6G \home partition (logical). There is about 12G un-used hard disk space, then 6G window_D partition (logical) and 6G window_E partition (logical). I was able to start the linux using the Rescue mode from the CD, and found the whole system in the computer. But some boot_log were empty. After re-install the system several times and consulted some of my friends, the problem remained the same. I was completely out of my wits now. Mandrake linux has very friendly interfaces. I don't want to give it up so easily. Any suggestion on how to solve this problem is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help. Best wishes, Albert Here is the list of known problems with 8.1. That should help you out. http://mandrakeforum.com/search.php?query=8.1+errata BTW: Mandrake 8.2 is now out, and is even better than 8.1 HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!
I had the same problem with Mandrake 8.2 after install went all smooth, I rebooted and the same thing happened: : : kernel panic attemp to kill init! : and I had to shut down the system manually. I was installing it on a system with the following specs: Intel P4 1.6 GHz mainboard: ATX / XP4 chipset built in ether LAN 256 RAM GeForce2 MX VGA card Sound blaster Live 40 G HD first 3 G == win2000 ntfs next 8 G == fat32 partition next a swap patrition ( dont remember how big ) next 5 G ext2 / next 8 G ext2 /home rest id free space. thats about all . :) - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!
Try this:- At the lilo splash screen ,hit Esc tab, and at the boot screen, type linux(or whatever it is listed as) nobiospnp enter When on desktop go to /etc/lilo.conf and edit the append=line by additng nobiospnp within the already established qyotes. John On Sunday 14 April 2002 14:09, you wrote: Hi, All: I am pretty new with linux. Actually, this is my first time to install the Mandrake linux 8.1 (2 CD disks) to a desktop. The installation was very smooth. But after the installation and reboot, nothing happened and the screen was black! After re-login with the failsafe mode, the following error message showed up on the screen: . . EIP: 0068 [8332] . . Code: Bad EIP value 0 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! My computer has a 3D mainboard (PV40A series), a Pentium 4 CPU (1.6G), a NVIDIA TNT2 32M graphic accelerator card, a 512M memory and a 40G hard disk. A Window 98 operating system occupied first 5G hard disk in hda1, followed in the extended partition are the 517M swap partition (logical), 2.5G \ partition (logical) and 6G \home partition (logical). There is about 12G un-used hard disk space, then 6G window_D partition (logical) and 6G window_E partition (logical). I was able to start the linux using the Rescue mode from the CD, and found the whole system in the computer. But some boot_log were empty. After re-install the system several times and consulted some of my friends, the problem remained the same. I was completely out of my wits now. Mandrake linux has very friendly interfaces. I don't want to give it up so easily. Any suggestion on how to solve this problem is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help. Best wishes, Albert -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:45:36 GMT Joe Sotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This lloks like an upgrade gone horribly wrong... I am upgrading a system to an AMD 1700+/ MSI K7266A Pro2 board, 256MB PC2100 RAM, duel booting Linux 8.1/Windows ME. I'm using the remaining equipment from my old system. The windows ME side works fine. I have freshly installed Mandrake 8.1 three separate times at this point. When I try to load linux, linux-nonfb, or failsafe I get the following errors. PNP: PNP Bios version 1.0, entry at . general protection fault: 0 . a bunch of stuff. Bad EIP value Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init ... and then a dead halt. Hlp! Joe Sotham try to install Joe Sotham -- Looks like http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/81errata.php3 : Error scenario: Mandrake Linux 8.1 installs flawlessly on systems with K7T266 Pro2 Motherboards, but fails to boot after installation. Error message is Bad EIP value. Why: The BiosPNP support in kernel 2.4.8 is broken for the KT266A chipset. Solution: Press ESC when you see the LILO bootloader screen, and type linux nobiospnp. The system will boot correctly, giving you the change to edit /etc/lilo.conf. Add the nobiospnp option to every append= line in lilo.conf, then run /sbin/lilo, and reboot. -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init - Fixed
adding the parameter nobiospnp to the append line in lilo.conf fixed the problem as Franz pointed out. Thanks, Franz! Joe On Saturday 29 December 2001 12:36, you wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:45:36 GMT Joe Sotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This lloks like an upgrade gone horribly wrong... I am upgrading a system to an AMD 1700+/ MSI K7266A Pro2 board, 256MB PC2100 RAM, duel booting Linux 8.1/Windows ME. I'm using the remaining equipment from my old system. The windows ME side works fine. I have freshly installed Mandrake 8.1 three separate times at this point. When I try to load linux, linux-nonfb, or failsafe I get the following errors. PNP: PNP Bios version 1.0, entry at . general protection fault: 0 . a bunch of stuff. Bad EIP value Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init ... and then a dead halt. Hlp! Joe Sotham try to install Joe Sotham -- Looks like http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/81errata.php3 : Error scenario: Mandrake Linux 8.1 installs flawlessly on systems with K7T266 Pro2 Motherboards, but fails to boot after installation. Error message is Bad EIP value. Why: The BiosPNP support in kernel 2.4.8 is broken for the KT266A chipset. Solution: Press ESC when you see the LILO bootloader screen, and type linux nobiospnp. The system will boot correctly, giving you the change to edit /etc/lilo.conf. Add the nobiospnp option to every append= line in lilo.conf, then run /sbin/lilo, and reboot. -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel panic
sometimes it goes all the way up to kswap sometimes a black screen and sometimes it says somethign about unable to handle kernel paging address at virtual address 736f6962 there's more about bad eip oops: Aiee: killing interrupt handler and lots lots more whats all this mean? and this is from the rescue option of the CD .. guess this means i cant rescue or do anything with this hard disk huh? - Original Message - From: Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 10:04 AM Subject: [newbie] kernel panic what does 1. kernel panic: trying to kill init and 2. error referencing 00 mean? i got that and my linux refuses to boot nor even install any more sigh ..help? _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel panic
Can u tell me which version of linux are you using and if you are facing probs regarding the installation u can try this u go in to the rom bios setting of ur comp and in the HDD section , make the access mode to NORMAL then re partition and try installing linux i hope u'll get thru it amit - Original Message - From: Mohammed Arafa To: Mandrake Newbie Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:34 PM Subject: [newbie] kernel panic what does1. kernel panic: trying to kill initand2. error referencing 00mean?i got that and my linux refuses to boot nor even install any moresigh ..help?_Do You Yahoo!?Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Reiser FS
Have you tried booting with the default 2.4.3 Mandrake kernel? I was using the Freq kernel for a while, but I found it too buggy and went back to the default one. On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:02, Terry Smith wrote: Hi gang, I've got a fairly serious problem with my linux box (dual boot with Win98). I left my machine at work running overnight. When I came in this morning it had died and when I attempted to reboot I've got a 'kernel panic' message driven by an inability to mount the root fs (reiser). This means I can't use 'failsafe' or anything else in lilo. Here's the particulars: LM 8.0 June Freq Update: includes kernel 2.4.5, gnome 1.4, kde 2.2alpha, etc. Been working fine (for a week or so). Machine: Micron w/PII @ 480 mhz, 64 mg RAM, 10 gig drive, etc. Filesystem: Reiser FS on all partitions except Swap. I've been using Reiser on everything but swap for the last 6 months. No problems. I don't have a boot floppy (coulnd't make one on this installation. do have a boot floppy at home but my drives at home are partitioned slightly differently [windoze has drives c and d so linux starts at hda3; here they start with hda2]). My 'official' LM CDs with the update are at home as well. I can drag these things in tomorrow. In checking the Reiser website I see that there is a Reiser analog to fsck - reiserfsck - I'm assuming it's installed but how do I use it if I can't access the drive??? Clearly I can reinstall and reformat the partitions but I'll lose everything. I could reformat only / and hopefully recover /home (which is Reiser) where all the 'good stuff' is. But is there some way to run 'reiserfsck' if I can boot from a floppy? Anybody have some clever idea(s)? TIA. Terry Smith Woods Hole, MA -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Reiser FS
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 12:00 pm, Terry Smith wrote: By way of a post-mortem, the failure may have been from the Reiser filesystem or perhaps the kernel. Has anyone had difficulties like fs crashes with Reiser or 2.4.5, or both in combination? No problems here. Half of 13.6g hda is formatted with ReiserFS, and all of 30g hdb is ReiserFS. Freq is on hdb. I've only been using Freq and 2.4.5 for a week tho. ...and on a VIA motherboard too ; FWIW, the only problem I've had at all with Freq is that the iptables version it shipped with wasn't matched to the 2.4.5 kernel. Installing the latest cooker src.rpm fixed that, iptables-1.2.2-3mdk -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Reiser FS
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 03:00, Terry Smith wrote: Thanks Allen, worked like a charm! In my panic I had forgotten the 'rescue' option on the CD. BTW, after using reiserfsck to rebuild my superblocks and to clean up the reiser partitions the system seems much snappier. Thanks. Those of us using Resierfs need to remember to run reiserfsck occasionally, I guess. Sridhar, in responding to my note, indicated that he had been having some difficulty with a buggy 2.4.5 kernel from the June Freq update. My problems were a little different. One involved the kernel using swap even when there was plenty of free RAM available. This bug has apparently been fixed in subsequent kernel releases. Another was a poor supermount implementation. For the moment, at least, I will be sticking with 2.4.3 (if it ain't broke don't fix it). By way of a post-mortem, the failure may have been from the Reiser filesystem or perhaps the kernel. Has anyone had difficulties like fs crashes with Reiser or 2.4.5, or both in combination? Thanks. Terry Smith Woods Hole, MA A V Flinsch wrote: On Tuesday 31 July 2001 17:02, you wrote: But is there some way to run 'reiserfsck' if I can boot from a floppy? Anybody have some clever idea(s)? boot from the install cd (hint there is a rescue mode) modprobe reiserfs, then run reiserfsck -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic,please help
Vishal Abrol wrote: There are no other operating system installed,i believe hard disk has SCSI controller and hard drive is promise ultra66 Try using the boot images provided on the cdrom instead of letting the cdrom boot directly. The images I suggest you try are in images/alternatives/. The specific image I would try is cdrom.img-2.2.19-BADZ5. Use rawrite.exe to create the boot disk if you are making it in dos. Use dd to create the boot disk if you are making it in unix/linux. Good luck! -- tlyons at mandrakesoft dot com http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic on booting a compiled 2.4.1 kernel
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 07:44 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I have finally managed to compile a 2.4.1 kernel for myself. Unfortunately, whenever I try to boot with it the kernel will panic, giving the error "kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3:01". What could this be and how may I fix it? I have no problems booting with stock standard Mandrake kernels (I use 2.2.17-21mdk). All my Linux partitions are ReiserFS, and I have compiled ReiserFS support as a module. Thanks in advance. either compile reiserfs in (not as a module) or do a mkinitrd to preload your modules reiserfs and loop both i think must be in the kernel to do this -- Message sent from Linux-Mandrake 8.0 (Cooker) Salane icq# 324306
Re: [newbie] kernel Panic
On Monday 18 December 2000 01:55 pm, Vikram Haravu wrote: I recently installed LM 7.1 on my PC which already had Win98. I was using Grub as the bootloader setup to load Linux as default. Since the Linux install I have re-installed Win98 on my PC. Now I cannot use Linux. So I used the Linux startup disk created during install and restart the PC. Even that does not start Linux- Sounds like Windoze trashed your installation. Boot the install CD and choose 'upgrade' (might be called 'rescue'). -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic
Luis , do you need to recover your Windows? If so you will need to boot from a dos floppy and fdisk /mbr to get started reinstalling Windows. Then use FIPS or Partition Magic (whatever you prefer really) to create Linux partition. Then you can try using a Linux rescue floppy. If that fails , you will probably have to reinstall. Others may give you a better idea if you wait for all replies. Good Luck -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Luis Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 3:20 PM Subject: [newbie] Kernel panic I recently reinstalled windows and it erased my master boot record (mbr) I have tried to boot linux through a floppy disc and I received this error message: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07 What can I do to boot linux? Please help me I have very important files in my linux partition. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] kernel panic
This is usually a prob with your RAM settings on the windows side You may have set them wrong 8)
Re: [newbie] kernel panic
Hallo I have this same problem ... - Original Message - From: Inge Mauren To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 1:16 PM Subject: [newbie] kernel panic hi everybody :) I have just installed mandrake 7.0 lnx4win everything seems to be working fine, but when I try to start linux, it continues a bit past the part where harddrives are being detected, and then displays something like: kernel panic: could not locate root 08:01 or something like that not very concise, but I didn't have the time to take notes.. I believe my system specs are adequate.. 128 ram, amd k7 600, 2 gb free drive space also, in case you can't help.. what is the easiest way to install mandrake for a guy who has been tormented by Bill for countless years? Inge Title: Linux 7 What is wrong with with my start of linux..?
Re: [newbie] kernel panic
FYI, Presently I use Win95B, Win95C, and Win98 at work, at home I have Win95B. To learn how to use Linux, I install Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and RedHat 6.0 each on separate 10 Gb harddisks in a removable tray (will be doing same for SuSe 6.3 on 4 Gb soon) - so that - Win and Linux do not 'see' each other at all, if I mess-up one the other is not affected. Just my $0.002 of info. Regards At 07:16 PM 30-10-2000 +0100, you wrote: also, in case you can't help.. what is the easiest way to install mandrake for a guy who has been tormented by Bill for countless years? Inge
Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic
Is your /etc/lilo.conf 's image statement pointing to the right kernel? Also, check what /boot/vmlinuz links to. Seve -Original Message- From: Curtis W. Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, June 24, 2000 10:14 PM Subject: [newbie] Kernel Panic I just installed mandrake 7.1. Compiled a new kernel and now I get an error message on boot, Kernel Panic: No init found. Any ideas
Re: [newbie] kernel panic
If you have a copy of your FAT, the one after made the linux partition, copy it and then make again the partition. - Original Message - From: Roberto Pedrozo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 3:12 AM Subject: [newbie] kernel panic I need to reinstall my linux mandrake but hen i start the autoboot in my cd i receve one message saying kernel panic and after the instalation stop. Someone can help me with this problem . i tryed to use my fdisk but i canĀ“t erase the linux partition
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic
root wrote: Installed kernel-2.2.9 from tar.gz, on reboot I get message "VFS: cannot open root device 03:01" "Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01" Kernel-2.0.36 boosts on 03:00 Any help would be help THANKS Hi, Do you have any bootable kernels? If so, boot with a good kernel and check that you have the correct root device set on this 2.2.9 kernel which is giving problems. To check the root device, do 'rdev kernel image' where kernel image is the kernel image file, usually zImage or bzImage, created in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot when you recompiled the 2.2.9 kernel. OK, good luck, Hidong