Problems booting Mandrake 10 beta after installation

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Maybe anyone help me a little...
>
> I installed Mandrake 10 beta, and I'm booting it from floppy (I refused to
> install lilo in hd).
>
> The problem is that after some lines the following messages appears:
>
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
>
> I have to say that for the installation I repartitioned my hda to make room
> for installa the mdj10 beta and in the process the partition table was
> changed... hda5 changed to hda7 and alike...
>
> So I imagine that's why the kernel is panicking...
>
> Any one have experieced somthing similar? And If so what was the solution?
>
> Useful info would be to now how to pass options to the kernel (init=)

I've never used Mandrake, but normally when you get this kind of mess
immediately after the install it suggests that either the install media
was bad, and the installation didn't complete, or you have unsupported
hardware.

You can try passing:
init=/bin/bash
and see if that gets you anywhere, but quite honestly, i'd suggest doing
the install again to see if things improve at all.  Its possible that the
updated partition table confused the installer.

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