Redhat Kernel Panic Help

[Raige342]

I have dual boot right now. GRUB is working fine. I have window xp and redhat 9.

But when I try to boot with redhat 9. I keep getting Kernel Panic help.

Before attempted to kill init, i get this

Code: ff 50 10 eb d0 eb 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90

Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init!


What do I do? I'm really pissed off.

Computer spec:

VIAK8M Motherboard.
Window XP SP2
AMD 64 3000
1 GB DDRAM 333
GeForce FX 5900 GT 128 MB

[genesus]

what does your /boot/grub/grub.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst look like?

[Raige342]

what does your /boot/grub/grub.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst look like?

I can't access any files from linux atm.

[drakebasher]

I'm really pissed off.

Doesn't help. Wish it did.

To get your grub.conf, when you boot and see the Grub menu (where you select which OS to boot to), highlight your Redhat OS and then press 'e' for edit. You'll see the script that you wish would boot your Linux. Write that down and post it here. If you decide to change something in that script to try to boot, you can do that non-permanently by highlighting the line you want to change and then press 'e' to edit. From there, you can basically follow the instructions that Grub offers.

[Raige342]

The code for redhat is.

root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-6 ro root=LABEL/
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-6.img

For the windows

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1



Is there a problem with it? I installed window xp first with 80 gb, i left 50 gb for windows and 30 gb for redhat. I installed redhat on the 30 gb unpartitioned(redhat partioned the 30gb to /ext3) and windows partioned the 50 gb to NTFS.

[drakebasher]

Your grub.conf looks okay, I think. That's assuming that there is a small typo in your post: 'root=LABEL/' should be 'root=LABEL=/'. I wonder if your AMD64 is a problem for that distro? That's all I got....

[Raige342]

Your grub.conf looks okay, I think. That's assuming that there is a small typo in your post: 'root=LABEL/' should be 'root=LABEL=/'. I wonder if your AMD64 is a problem for that distro? That's all I got....

Yeah its root=LABEL=/

My mistake.

I keep thinking about that too. Maybe it's my AMD 64. But I really need to install redhat linux on this computer. So is there any way to fix this or no?

[Raige342]

Hmm, cant fix this?

[drakebasher]

Have you ever installed RedHat/Fedora on that machine before? I've never liked their use of LABEL for identifyng partitions. Which partition is the root partition? Find out and do this:

Boot to the Grub menu, and press 'c' for the Grub command line.
do root (hd0,1)

do kernel../ <tab> ("<tab>" means the tab key)
You should see a list of files in the (hd0,1) partition. You should see vmlinuz-2.4.20-6 among them. Anything else of interest?
Add vmlin <tab> to get the whole file name and then add ro..root=/dev/hda2 or whatever your root partition is.
do initrd../init <tab>
do boot

You'll notice that this is nothing more than manually doing what the Grub menu should do, but by using Grub's filename completion, you can confirm that the files that you are asking for are where you think they are.
If you don't see anything "unexpected" and it doesn't boot, you may need to reinstall or install a different distro.

[a thing]

Write down at least 10 lines before the error and lines that are different than what they were before.