On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:19:37AM -0000, Shree Raman wrote: > I am experiencing a tough time as my system had a kernel panic. it > happened while I was installing openoffice. The system hunged and > there was no way left other than rebooting & then a kernel panic > prompt. > > I had installed debian testing from floppies & i am not having a > boot disk. I tried to use mkrboot from another system but it is
The first disk in a floppy install is a boot disk. > also not helping. Can any one tell me how to solve this problem. > The panic prompt tells try using init= ..... but i am unable to > find out a soluton. the filesystem(reiserfs) as reprted is > readonly. At the lilo prompt, you can type in "init=/bin/sh", and it will bypass the normal init. /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz says: Recent kernels also accept the options init=<name> and noinitrd. init specifies the name of the init program to execute. Therefore, if single mode cannot be entered because init is mis-configured, one may still be able to reach the shell using init=/bin/sh. It helps when more information about the panic is posted. Usually, before the panic, the kernel will show an error message of some form. They can be used to determine a possible cause of the panic. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
