Re: Kernel panic: No init found

centers :
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.

either the root filesystem is broken or it's not ext3. Find out what
filesystem type it is, mount it in another linux (Slax is good for this)
and fix your fstab.

Oh wait, your using RedHat, probably a logical volume. I just got
stupid. If you're using logical volumes I'm clueless, i dont know them.
Hope you have a backup. Slax does have LVM tools though.

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