j j wrote:
> Hello nolug,
> I am new to the user group and wanted to see if anyone has come across
> this problem. I am running SUSE 9.1 and I am getting a Kernel panic
> when I try to boot Linux. Linux was running normally for months. I
> have not installed any kernel updates and the error started happening
> for no apparent reason. I tried starting in rescue mode and running
> fsck on all filesystems but to no avail. The following is the error that
> comes across the screen on boot.
looks like a hard drive failure. If you can burn a knoppix CD and boot
from that, you may be able to mount the hard drive and rescue some data.
> ...
> warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
> warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
> ReiserFS: hda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
> ReiserFS: hda3: using ordered data mode
> reiserfs: using flush barriers
> ReiserFS: hda3: journal params: device hda3, size 8192 (...rest of params)
> ReiserFS: hda3: checking transaction log (hda3)
> reiserfs: disabling flush barriers on hda3
> ReiserFS: hda3: Using r5 hash to sort names
> VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
> Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
> Unmounting old root
> Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed
> /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4: cannot
> open shared object: No such file or directory
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
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