This may be way off base, but I had this happen to me when I had an incorrect paramater in grub. I built a custom kernel and when I updated grub, I had a typo on the initrd line...I got the same: Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. error. May not be your answer, but if you made any recent changes, it's alway possible your finger slipped.
Good luck! Steve > Yes, good luck with the knoppix and tom's endevours... I too suffered a > similar > fate very recently, hard disc failure... of the absolute nastiest kind, I > mean, > the drive may as well have has it's plates vanish it was so bad. Anyway, > I was > in the process of figuring out rsync (more irony) and didn't get a couple > directories to rsync properly, and still trudging through the problem, the > disc > failure occurred, lost "some" stuff, nothing I can't live without though. > So > backups are so *SO* important. > > laters, > David M. > > > --- Jason Tower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> knoppix has always been my pal in cases like this, although tom's root >> boot disk performs a similar task (unless it doesn't have a driver for >> whatever scsi/raid card you're using). if knoppix/tom's can't >> mount /dev/sdaX (not just /dev/sda) then you have either a corrupted >> filesystem or a failed disk. >> >> (despite the irony, i'll avoid mentioning anything about backups) >> >> jason >> >> On Friday 14 May 2004 09:05, Mark wrote: >> > Hi all- >> > >> > >> > >> > I've got major problems this morning with my samba-ldap >> > authentication box. >> > >> > >> > >> > Here's the pertinent information: >> > >> > >> > >> > RH Linux 9 >> > >> > GRUB Bootloader >> > >> > Been up and running for a couple of months before I rebooted this >> > morning. >> > >> > Has the following error on reboot: >> > >> > >> > >> > EXT3-fs: Mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. >> > >> > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 >> > >> > umount: /initrd/proc failed: 2 >> > >> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 156K freed >> > >> > Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. >> > >> > >> > >> > I've searched on the subject and found a couple of things I could >> > try, but all involve getting into the filesystem, a task I've been >> > unable to accomplish. I tried passing a 'boot single' to GRUB but >> > the same thing happens (although the error is slightly different with >> > a 'try passing root='). I've also tried using Tom's rescue disks, >> > but I can't seem to mount /dev/sda (where the root partition should >> > be). >> > >> > >> > >> > I've also tried booting with the linux rescue option using the Redhat >> > Linux 9 install CD, but I wind up getting an error that no distro was >> > found on the install cd. >> > >> > >> > >> > I'm at a loss and panicky.. >> > >> > Any ideas will be GREATLY appreciated. >> > >> > Mark >> -- >> TriLUG mailing list : >> http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug >> TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ >> TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ >> TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. > http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
