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Redhat Kernal Issue...

By Satyam Mehta - Jul. 01, 2008

I have 3 OS' installed on my box: Windows XP Pro, Windows 2003 Server and Redhat v9. Everything was running fine but suddenly while booting RedHat, it shows the message "Kernal panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!"


Your help in resolving this would be much appreciated...



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  1. By Joe Brody on Jul. 01, 2008

    Very often the kernel panic message has to do with Linux being unable to locate the hard drive.


    A couple of things to consider:


    1) If you've added any hardware recently, remove it, and try to boot into Linux. If Linux boots fine, you'll be able to isolate the problem with your hardware.


    2) Boot from a Linux rescue CD (something like Knoppix - http://www.knoppix.com/) and then run fsck on the hard drive. That may fix the problem.


    HTH


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