On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, kuppermanfred wrote: > Hi, > > i'm installing debian the third time now on my laptop from cd: cause of > bad video-card i had to restart four times. > cd boot prompt: bf24 vga=791 apm=on > ended in a fading colormonitor and system hangs up: tried rescue > cd boot prompt: rescbf24 vga=791 apm=on > it starts penguin is drawn in all colors > screen is prompted with messages and ends in > Kernel panic: No init found That message is a result of some other error, typically because it was unable to mount the root filesystem. This in turn could arise because the kernel can't find your CD drive - note that the kernel itself is read in using BIOS calls.
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