boot problem

[Technomage]

I had this one on my mandrake box. happened after the dogs sat on (and
pulled)
the plug on the machine. time to install a new kernel (that one if
fubar).

Technomage

> Charlie Bullen wrote:
> 
> Good Morning andMerry Christmas,
> 
> My computer won't boot to Linux. I have Suse 7.2 andam using lilo to boot to either Linux or windows. I am using a graphical selection screen. If I select Linux here is what finally happens.
> 
> Freeing unused memory: 112K freed
> Warnng: unable to open n inital console
> Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init option to Kernel.
> 
> Then the boot process stops, the keyboard freezes and I have to reset.
> 
> Any ideas? In the past I might just have reinstalled Linux, but now my installation does everything  need so I don't want to reinstall.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Charlie

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