Topic: boot error HELP!...HELP!...HELP!

[van]

Kernel Panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel

HELP !  HELP! .....HELP!!!!!
I am using SCSI harddisk, and boot is sda3
I tried
linux single root=/dev/sda3
linux single
linux 1

They are all not work....


I tried use boot disk to boot my linux, But I cannot find /dev/sda
I cannot mount the harddisk and edit the lilo.conf

anyone can help me...............

[Kees Blokland]

Hi,

You have to explain in far more detail what happens.

Did you verify the checksum of the cd ?! (just a thought)
 if yes:

1 what hardware do you use (cpu, how much mem), what type scsi controller
2 what is the scsi-id of the harddisk. (is it really set to id=3?)

My first suspicion would be that your system does not see the disk at all.
Not all scsi controllers bootable. (wrong phrase, but I hope you know what I mean)
Older scsi disks might need a terminator either on the drive, on the cable etc..
Are you sure that's correct.

Has you hardware been known to work with a scsi disk?

Hope these are some ideas to get you going.

good luck.

kees



..and don't say 'boot error  HELP!...HELP!...HELP!..'
your system is not going to work any faster or better when you say that.
usually it works the other way around.

[van]

My Hardware is
PIII-500 x 1
512MB ram
9G Ultra160 SCSI Harddisk ( ID-0 )
Adaptec 29160 SCSI card
Root = sda3

one day, my server was down, cannot connect, I check it cannot boot up
and display this error message,
Because I cannot get in the console, cannot read Log, so...I don't know what's happen....

THANKS

[Kees Blokland]

Something suggests that it can not see part of the harddisk anymore, is my first guess.

What I would do:

I would have a go at it with fsck, see if you can read the partition information.
(but do some research on fsck first, make sure you understand how it works.)

then:

disconnect your present scsi disk.
get a another scsidisk, and  install sme on that one.
(in order to make sure that all the hardware is ok.)
once you have a running system, mount the original drive as dev/hdx
once mounted have a go at it with fsck..

but..

if you really have important data on the disk, get an expert to help you, because once if you make mistakes, it's gone forever..

good luck