Linux Boot Problem

[Guest tjr80]

Hi, I have a HDD that has Knoppix . When I try to boot up to the Knoppix, I get the error "Kernel Panic-not syncing:Attempted to kill init!" What is this?

Edited January 12, 2006 by tjr80

[iccaros]

did it ever boot?

when you say knoppix... you installed knoppix to a harddrive

did you update the system..

This is normaly caused by updateing a kernel and not updating a initrd file.. as knoppix is a driviative a debian, but changed to use a loop based boot. updateing the kernel using apt or synaptic could easly kill the system..

did the error look like this

exec of init (/sbin/init) failed!!! : 2

umount /initrd/dev failed: 2

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

can you boot a live version of knoppix, mount the drive (hda1 right)

go to /boot

do a ls -la and post it

cd grub

ls -la post

then post the output of

cat menu.1st

or

cat grub.conf

and cat device.map

last

cat /etc/fstab