Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: kernel panic, a cry for help | Date | Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:15:12 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> im not sure if this q belongs here but i need all the help i can get. > the www, dns, mail server at my site mysteriously got corrupted (not sure how). > Now i boot it up and get > > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel > > what can i do? where should i start? i dont want to break anything so please > help me,
I suspect back up tapes. The kernel cannot find an /sbin/init to run when it starts up. That could be on of several things
- Disk failure - Someone broke in and erased it all - Misconfiguration
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