Can't boot "Kernel panic: No init found" -- partially solved -- MoreQuestions (APT)

After many hours of trial and error, and Googling, I finally discovered that I had somehow deleted my /lib directory. init wouldn't run, but didn't give any usefull error, so the kernel just reported that init was missing. I restored a 6 month old backup, booted with error messages, but couldn't l

Re: Re: Can't boot "Kernel panic: No init found" -- partially solved

After many hours of trial and error, and Googling, I finally discovered that I had somehow deleted my /lib directory. init wouldn't run, but didn't give any usefull error, so the kernel just reported that init was missing. I restored a 6 month old backup, booted with error messages, but couldn

Re: Can't boot "Kernel panic: No init found"

Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can no longer boot my Woody laptop. Here are the last few lines of > boot up: > > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. > Freeing unused kernel momory 208k freed > kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > > I u

Can't boot "Kernel panic: No init found"

All, I can no longer boot my Woody laptop. Here are the last few lines of boot up: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel momory 208k freed kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. I use GRUB and have tried adding the kernel parameters 'init