[SOLVED] Kernel Panic !!!!

[vickey_20]

What I did : Moved /sbin/init to /usr/local/sbin/init intentionally , I know how to fix this using LILO but not with grub. In LILO one can simply pass the value of init=/usr/local/sbin/init but how to circumvent it through Grub. I land somewhere in init shell

[Rubberman]

I have to ask, why did you do that? I presume you had what seems to be a good reason, but enquiring minds, and all that...

[vickey_20]

i did it but now i m stuck with grub i dont know how to handle it using grub , so thought you people might help

[Rubberman]

Boot your liveCD or recovery disc. Login as root, mount the hard drive, and move the file back. Example (after logging in as root):

mkdir /mnt /mnt/hd1
# note that on most current systems, the root file system is on /dev/sda3
# and /boot is /dev/sda1, swap is /dev/sda2. If your / and /usr directories
# are on another device, substitute that for /dev/sda3 below.
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/hd1
cd /mnt/hd1/usr/local/sbin
mv init /mnt/hd1/sbin

Once you have moved init back to its proper place, you can reboot the system and be back in business.

[vickey_20]

hey thanks but I found another better solution
When you boot form grub go in edit mode and pass the kernel the new place of init . I did some R&D and got it working.

[vickey_20]

Here is a useful link 10 boot time parameters you should know about the Linux kernel

[Rubberman]

Thanks. I saved that to my Linux documentation folder. Useful stuff that we often forget about.