Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!"

[Steve Kasian]

--- "Waldher, Travis R" <Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Kasian [mailto:stevekasian at yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:31 AM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: RE: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill
> init!"
> > 
> > --- "Waldher, Travis R" <Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com> wrote:
> > >  
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Steve Kasian [mailto:stevekasian at yahoo.com]
> > > > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 1:58 AM
> > > > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
> > > > Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill
> init!"
> > > > 
> > > > Please, no complaints about my text not being exactly how 
> > you like 
> > > > to read it, etc...  this is childish and pointless.  I am only 
> > > > looking for responses from those of you whom actually 
> > KNOW EXACTLY 
> > > > what the deal is with this error, and can give me an educated 
> > > > response as to how I can correct it.  No "iffy" 
> > suggestions please.  
> > > > I have spent literally weeks going through hundreds of 
> > suggestions 
> > > > and had absolutely no luck with any of them getting me anywhere 
> > > > other than frustrated as all heck.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks...
> > > > 
> > > > -Steve
> > > 
> > > Well dude, I was going to reply and ask if you started the install
> 
> > > with the nousb switch or any others.
> > > 
> > > But seeing as how my response is iffy... Maybe I won't.
> > > 
> > > I understand your upset and frustrated, but taking it out on
> people 
> > > HERE isn't the answer.
> > 
> > 
> > Travis... once again, another empty-headed response from 
> > someone who has
> > no business replying in the first place.  The only people taking
> > anything out on anyone here are people like yourself, who respond
> with
> > stupid, pointless emails.  I tell you I'm not interested in 
> > hearing from
> > people like yourself, so you respond anyway... just out of 
> > spite?  Grow
> > up and get a life out from behind your monitor.
> > 
> > This is the exact reason why I have sat on this issue and never
> posted
> > anything about it anywhere on the net for the last YEAR... because I
> > just KNEW there would be nothing but a bunch of losers out there
> like
> > the last two idiots filling up the thread with a bunch of 
> > worthless B.S.
> >  I thought maybe I'd finally found a forum where there might be some
> > level of intelligence.  Apparently I was wrong.
> > 
> > Good luck, everyone.  I'm out.
> > 
> 
> Pot - kettle - black.
> 
> My reply was laced with sarcasm due to your disrespect for those on
> this
> list.  If you want help, I would suggest posting up here with an
> appropriately polite email.  Not an email implying that everyone that
> is
> going to respond will be a "empty-headed" type person that will ask
> "stupid" questions or offer up "iffy" answers.  All those answers you
> consider "Iffy" may actually lead you to the solution.
> 
> I did offer something up, you chose to ignore it.
> 
> **** WHAT switches did you use during setup?  Any? ****
> 
> Your post never stated that you did.


Travis-

Your response was laced with sarcasm due to the fact that you just
couldn't leave well enough alone when you didn't have anything worth
posting that would fit the criteria I laid out for responses I was
interested in receiving.  Your interpretation of my "implication" is
simply a product of your own guilty concience.  At least you're self
aware, I'll give you that much.


Rick,

Thanks for your more mature and enlightening approach.  It's much
appreciated.  I'll heed your advice on the political end of things.
I was just hoping someone out there might read this post and have a
light bulb go off in their head, suddenly remembering having encountered
this specific problem in the past, either themselves or through someone
else, and might remember a fix for it.  That's the only reason I said I
wasn't interested in iffy ideas.  I've read countless slews of
suggestions thrown back to people who have posted with this exact
problem and nothing ever resolved the issue for them.  Heck, even on
RedHat's own Bug forum, the techs who replied ended up CLOSING out the
issues without a resolution.  Sounds like it was something to be swept
under the rug as far as they were concerned, eh?

As for the issue at hand, I can't seem to get past the Boot: prompt... 
ever.  It just won't go.  I have tried noapic, noathlon, i386, text,
etc...  I've run the whole gamut, but nothing works.  (I've actually
forgotten how many of the parameters I've tried, as there were so many.)
 It tells me it's loading 3 things at the bottom of the screen, then the
screen clears and a whole bunch of information gets dumped to the screen
at lightning speed, as is normal, but then it suddenly crashes with the
error.

As far as the components are concerned, everything is working properly. 
I run Win98SE and WinXP on the same machine (multiple HDDs) and it's the
smoothest running and most flawless box I've ever used. That's one
reason why I'm so blown away by this.

I'm almost convinced it's a hardware compatibility related issue - such
as the processor, motherboard chipset, etc.  I don't find any Soyo
products listed on the RedHat site under certified compatible hardware,
but Soyo swears up and down that there's no problem with the
compatibility of their board with RedHat Linux.  It's quite possible
they're full of crap in claiming that, however.

I can say that everyone else who's posted about this issue has had an
AMD motherboard.  It could be the AMD processor, the motherboard and
chipset, or both.  I just don't know.

Yes, I manually partitioned the Linux partition (using Partition Magic),
formatting it with an Ext2 filesystem.  But unfortunately, I'm not even
getting close to the point where the HDD becomes an issue.

How is Fedora Core 2 as an OS?  Maybe I should try installing that
instead.

Thanks again, Rick.

-Steve

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