[ale] Kernel Panic question

[Cor van Dijk]

Hello Brian and Joe

I had some sad experiences with tape backups. When a directory holds more than say
20 MB some subdirectories may be empty. This happened to me with both "taper" and
plain "tar". I do not know what causes this, but nowadays I keep my backups in the
neighborhood of 10 MB each. This avoids the problem.  Cor van Dijk.


Joe Knapka wrote:

> Brian Dowd wrote:
> >
> > After backing up my system, wiping the disk, reinstalling RedHat 6.2 and
> > then restoring everything from a backup (known good) tape I get a
> > "kernel panic No init found Try passing init= option to kernel"
> > I guess my tape restore is overwriting something important ;-)
> > Any ideas on how to correct this? What is the 'init'? Is it the initrd
> > in /etc/lilo.conf?
> > When I use the rescue disk from the original install it tells me that
> > the /boot/System.map has an incorrect kernel version.
> > The hard disk is vmlinux-2.2.12-20. How do I figure out what version is
> > on the rescue disk?
> >
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> This means that the kernel could not find the executable it needs
> to load in order to start the very first system process. Usually
> that executable is /sbin/init, but you can override that on the
> kernel command line. Looks like your restore is not restoring some
> important stuff!
>
> You could try copying /sbin/init from another RH6.2 machine, but
> the fact that you aren't getting /sbin/init back off of your
> tape seems to bode ill for the entire enterprise (I wonder
> what else will be missing?).
>
> -- Joe
>
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