Re: [LI] Kernel Panic !!!Today morning when I tried booting into Linux I gotthe following error:

["Aditya Deshpande" <adityad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ghins
    I think the solution to your lies in the command "dd"

but before that did you issue the following command
# mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0

Also the linux Cd which comes from with PCQ allows you to make boot disk


You will have to make the bootdisk able to act as root and the kernel in the
bootdisk
to point to /dev/fd0

This you can do using

mount /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
cd /images

#dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18K

or
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

regards
Aditya

----- Original Message -----
From: Ghins Mathai <ghins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [LI] Kernel Panic !!!Today morning when I tried booting into
Linux I gotthe following error:


| Hello Aditya
| I made a bootdisk using mkbootdisk ( on another Linux m/c). Now I tried
booting.
| At the boot: prompt I typed "rescue" and continued. Sometime later it
asked me
| to insert a root floppy. I had no idea of what was expected. So I just
pressed
| enter with the existing floppy. It went on and then gave me a message "
Unable
| to open an initial Console. Try passing init= option to kernel"
|
| Did I do everything right or have I messed up ???
|
| PLease reply ASAP
|
| Aditya Deshpande wrote:
|
| > boot using the boot disk and then  run fsck on each of the drives
| > also please check all logs in /var/logs. That might give you a pointer
| > to the boot errors
| >
| > regards
| > Aditya
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: Ghins Mathai <ghins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 5:20 PM
| > Subject: Re: [LI] Kernel Panic !!!Today morning when I tried booting
into
| > Linux I gotthe following error:
| >
| > |
| > |
| > | Aditya Deshpande wrote:
| > |
| > | > Have you made a bootsik
| > | >
| > |
| > | You mean bootdisk, don't you. Yes I have one. What next ?
| > |
| > | >
| > | > regards
| > | > Aditya
| > | > | Tried rebooting a couple of times already. That did not help. How
do I
| > | > disable
| > | > | disk optimisations ???
| > | > | To run fsck, I need a shell. It does not go that far ;-(
| > | > |
| > | > <snip>
|
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