boot problem: kernel panic

[K. Mandla]

In my experience, kernel panic is hardware based. But the only times I've
ever seen it were while I was using an oversized hard drive in a machine
that had an old BIOS limit on hdd capacity.

In my case I could avoid the panic by rebooting, but if you're still seeing
it, then something might be seriously hosed.

Can you swap out a drive and reinstall, just for troubleshooting's sake?

On 3/16/06, chan henry <cshenrychan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> yesterday i found that my ubuntu box is not responding. i rebooted it but
> it failed to boot. it give me a debug screen.
>
> on the screen is reads:
> kernel panic- not syncing: attempted to kill init!
>
> on the previous lines, it showed that the box has failed to populate
> rootfs, then the kernel panic occured. just after grub pass control to
> kernel loader.
>
> was it a hardware or software problem? i have tried the live-cd, unpluging
> everything on the mainboard but it showed the same screen again.
>
> thx in advance!
> - henry
>
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