linux boot problem

[pavan_shah]

hello all !!

I am facing problem in booting my linux.The problem is as below:

I have installed mandrake 9.1 with kernel 2.4.21.It was working perfectly afer intallation.

suddenly one day ,i got following error message when i booted it:

mount error 6:mounting ext3 flags.
mounted devfs on /dev
kernel panic message:No init found Try passing init= option to the kernel.

[ordoni]

get a live cd ............. mount the hard drive and see where init is located........maybe you deleted it be mistake or the boot file is pointing to the wrong location..........if you find everything normal............then try to fsck your hard drive

[pavan_shah]

hi!!

My init binay is at the place it should be :/sbin/init.

but the problem is that it was working properly without any errors before.

I have tried running fsck on all the partitions.
It reported certain bad inodes and fixed them.
but somehow,still it gives me the same error :shock:


Is there any solution beyond running fsck?

Any help in this direction is appreciated.