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

["Waldher, Travis R" <Travis R Waldher boeing com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Kasian [mailto:stevekasian yahoo com] 
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 11:53 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: RE: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!"
> 
> 
> 
> 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,
> 
> 
> 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.

Odd... Didn't I ask you to supply that info, TWICE no less?  Why did I
ask?  I've seen Redhat fail to install more than a few times unless the
nousb or noapic switch was used.

Next thing up is, is your system REALLY ok.  As rick said, memory test.
Just because Windows 9x runs on it, doesn't mean that linux will even
boot on it, it also doesn't mean the computer's hardware is ok, which
also means there may be NOTHING wrong with linux itself.

Ever consider those you just slammed (in your initial post), may just be
the ones that have indirect info to help you solve your problems?

K.. Nuff of this, I have better things to do