Kate,
I've never had the pleasure of using a rescue disk, but I think that it just
loads a small filesystem in memory....it's not your original setup, and that
may be why things look correct. Try mounting your / partition, or
whichever, after you boot off of the rescue disk, and change back whatever
you moved. I hope that this helps.
--Mark
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From: Kate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 3:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 'Kernel Panic! no init found' help?
Hi.. I'm in need of some help and researching has gotten me lil more than
nowhere...
I have been setting up a development server for my work, mind you I have
very
little knowledge of what I'm doing, (my senior programmer put me on the job
to
learn) and I've come upon what seems a fairly serious problem I can find no
documentation on.
My senior programmer requested I set up the ftp to allow anonymous login, as
I
had previously disabled it, and to model it after another server we rent
space
on. In the /home/ftp dir there were lib, etc, bin, and pub directories in my
ftp tree. On the server I am modelling after, there was all but the lib
directory, out of stupidity after changing permissions on the folder and
decided that still didn't feel secure, I moved it up to the /home directory.
That felt completely wrong and in trying to move it back, everything went
haywire. No commands could be found, and eventually the server froze. When I
tried rebooting, I got the error, 'kernel panic! no init found. try passing
init= to the kernel" so after some more research I found the proper syntax
for
passing the init= to the kernel, yet it wouldn't give me a bash prompt.
so....
I'm now on the boot diskette, using 'linux rescue' at the bash prompt and
the
files I originally moved seemed to be in the proper places, however,
nothings
fixed.. I'm thoroughly lost and searches upon searches have revealed
nothing.
Would anyone have any advice for me? Or even a link to some documentation?
Am I
screwed?
please help and thank you in advance..
Best,
-Kate
www.msinteractive.com
Half Moon Bay, Ca
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