Subj : FC3 - kernel panic.. please help !!
To   : comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.setup, comp.os.linux
From : shahsachin
Date : Mon Dec 27 2004 05:48 pm

Hi,

I was working normally on my Fedora Core 3 kernel 2.6.9-1.681 (dual
boot on Dell Inspiron 700m with Win XP) connected through VNC, and
suddenly it got stuck at one point, I tried to connect through ssh and
also tried some key combinations, but no avail. At last I had to power
it off and when I turned it back on to boot Linux, I got following
message:

exec of init (/sbin/init) failed!!!: 2
umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!


I tried to boot to my previous version of kernel that is 2.6.9-1.667,
and got the same problem. My Win XP boot works fine. I tried to lookup
the issue by googling around but didn't get any solid solution for this
problem. I didn't have any hardware changes. Just installed a few
updates from fedora-updates using up2date and one of the packages did
not install correctly. I tried "linux rescue" from the dvd image of FC3
which mounts my existing filesystem on /mnt/sysimage, but I am not able
to run fsck from there, maybe not doing it correctly.

Has anyone come across similar problem and/or has a solution for it? I
will appreciate your help.

Thank you,
Sachin

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