Help. I cannot boot into Linux

[ekimyerac]

Hi, I am new to linux and I am now receiving the following line when I boot into linux.

kernal panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernal.

Dual boot, Win 98SE, AMN 1.8, 512 Ram.

Any help would be appreciated.

Michael Carey, KD7GHZ

[lakerdonald]

please tell us which version of mandrake you are running, how you installed it, and whether you are using LILO or Grub...
-lakerdonald

[ekimyerac]

Mandrake 10
Lilo
I installed it from CD purchased from Cheapbytes.

It was working and quite well. I am not sure but I one of my children shut the computer down in linux without consideration.

Thanks,

Mike

[jmanjeff]

I have had the same problem you have lost you inittab file it is or was in etc/
to fix i need some info cane you boot from CD1 to rescue mode if so ti can be fixed .

[jmanjeff]

Before you continue, did you

chroot /mnt

after booting from the CD?

Booting from the CD gives you a /MNT folder that contains all your hard drive folder, so you can find your /etc folder at

/mnt/etc

or you can immediately type

chroot /mnt

which changes the root location to /mnt (rendering it invisible). Afterwards, you can type

cd /etc

Just check this before you assume its gone..

[DCLXVI]

its happened to me before... bcuz im in windoze right now i cant tell you what that line should read but if you reinstall your bootloader from the rescue program on disk 1 then it auto detects your settings and re writes them into your init= line...

XeroXavier
DCLXVI
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