Re: Kernel panic: No init found

centers <stevecenters@xxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
I have looked through the Kernal panic listings but didn't find
anything simular to my problem.

I have a system that was working fine until the power went out
unexpectedly.
Now when it boots I get the following.

Red Hat nash version 3.4.42 starting
Loading jbd.o module
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Loading ext3.0 module
Mounting /proc filesystem
Creating block devices
Creating root device
mkrootdev: label / not found
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
unmount /initrd/proc failed: 2
Freeing unused kernal memory: 116k freed
Kernal panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernal

Then it just hangs here and the lights on the keybaord blink, but I
can't type anything in using the keyboard.
If you have any ideas or can direct me to a Kernel panic topic that
would address this I would appreciate it.

Looks like you need a bootable rescue disk (something like knoppix)
The powerfailure could've screwed up your boot loader's MBR or the initrd
file so it can't find the "/" filesystem anymore.

Another thing to try is... during the initial grub boot sequence (you ARE
using grub I take it?)

you can drop to a console type environment and edit lines in the grub boot
parameters... check that lines such as root=/dev/hda2 are in there.
(or add one). Looking at the log it can't find "label /", specifying the
filesystem name directly rather than using a label might fix it.

I don't know what filesystem your "/" partition is on, but chances are it's
/dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2
(depending on whether you're on an IDE, SATA or SCSI system)
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