[SOLVED] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

[seifullaah73]

i get this error message
can someone do this something

it all started when i had an opensuse 10.0 and i had the dual boot issue about grub or something and i was in the middle of solving it but i decided to update it to opensuse 10.3 to help with the dual boot.
well the setup is complete and the system reboots i take the dvd out and it boots to the grub menu i chose opensuse 10.3 and it loads until it goes straight to the error screen.

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

can someone solve it i am running live cd but you can't save anything
and i can't even access my hard drive

is there a way to access hard drive through live cd.

thanks

[gogalthorp]

I think your hard drive is totally messed up.

Can you mount any partition?

[devils casper]

Post the output of fdisk -l command here.
I would suggest you to backup data and re-install Linux. Upgrading from 10 to 10.3 was not a good idea.

[seifullaah73]

Here is the fdisk -l output

Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2611 20972826 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 2612 3395 6297480 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 9102 11712 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 15247 24124 71304503 83 Linux

how do i backup data because i don't know how to
is there a way

and when you mean do a fresh installation you mean of 10.3
i don't have dvd for 10.0 because it seems corrupted.
thats why i burned 10.3 at speed 1x.
but i can't download it as i am running live cd.

edit: i don't know about mounting is there a command which mounts partition
and if i mount the partition won't it erase the data in the partition.

thanks

[devils casper]

Does 10.3 LiveCD has install option? Is there any Install Icon on Desktop.
Post the output of df -h command here.

[seifullaah73]

yes there is an install icon in the desktop

here is the result of df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 173M 16M 158M 10% /dev
tmpfs 173M 4.0K 173M 1% /dev/shm

what does this mean

[devils casper]

Partitions are not mounted and you have to mount those manually.
Open Terminal in LiveCD and execute this

su -
mkdir hda1 hda3 hda4
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 hda1 -o defaults,umask=0
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3  hda3
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda4 hda4

Check hda1, hda3 and hda4 folders. Copy your data from hda3 and hda4 and save in hda1.
Execute this after data backup

umount /dev/hda1 /dev/hda3 /dev/hda4

Click on Install Icon and re-install SuSe.

[seifullaah73]

thanks for your reply but already been reinstalled so my dad did a fresh installation
but the data in hda3 is still intact.

so thanks for your effort will keep these in mind