Re: kernel panic, a cry for help

[Alan Cox]

> im not sure if this q belongs here but i need all the help i can get.
> the www, dns, mail server at my site mysteriously got corrupted (not sure how). 
> Now i boot it up and get
> 
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
> 
> what can i do? where should i start? i dont want to break anything so please 
> help me,

I suspect back up tapes. The kernel cannot find an /sbin/init to run when
it starts up. That could be on of several things

	-	Disk failure
	-	Someone broke in and erased it all
	-	Misconfiguration

A rescue disk is probably the starting point