Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

[Duncan Lithgow]

First here is the output I'm getting:

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Starting Ubuntu...
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hda5.
modprobe: FATAL: Could not open
'/lib/module/2.6.8.1-3-386/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp437.ko': No such file or
directory

FAT: codepage cp437 not found
cramfs: wrong magic
modprobe: FATAL: Could not open
'/lib/module/2.6.8.1-3-386/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp437.ko': No such file or
directory

FAT: codepage cp437 not found
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init:429 cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
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I've been installing and uninstalling windows a few times, and since my
main os is fedora at the moment I've concentrated on keeping that going.
But now when I went in to grub and reset it to start ubuntu as well all
I get is the output above.

since the search below doesn't show anything up I assume it's not a well
documented problem yet:
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"Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!" ubuntu "codepage cp437" -Acronis
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So, any help appreciated,

Duncan