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

[jludwig]

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 12:38, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Open the box and remove and reseat ALL of your PCI cards, memory sticks
> and the CPU.  It's amazing how many machines that fixes.  A little dirt
> or card misalignment can really hose the machine.
> 
> Next, do NOT install using the default ext3 filesystems.  If you get
> to the disk partitioning screen (disk druid), manually partition your
> drive and make sure the partitions are set up with ext2 filesystems.
> You can convert to ext3 after the system is installed.
> 
> I doubt seriously that you've used every option at the boot prompt.
> It would help if you can give us a list of the ones you have used.
> For example, did you use "noapic"?
> 
> Finally, drop the vitriol.  The people who contribute to this list are
> all volunteers--not one of us is a Red Hat employee nor do we receive
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> we help.  An attitude such as yours is guaranteed to elicit either
> no response at all, or worse, a cascade of hate messages casting
> aspersions about your ancestry and what your siblings do to each other.
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I might add reset the BIOS. I have fixed many a system by this setp
alone. 
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>