[ale] Kernel Panic question

[Gary Maltzen]

What are you using for backup/restore?

>After backing up my system, wiping the disk, reinstalling RedHat 6.2 and
>then restoring everything from a backup (known good) tape I get a
>"kernel panic No init found Try passing init= option to kernel"
>I guess my tape restore is overwriting something important ;-)
>Any ideas on how to correct this? What is the 'init'? Is it the initrd
>in /etc/lilo.conf?

Check that you have

   -rwxr-xr-x  root.root  /sbin/init

This is the default init if you don't specify the "init=" option.

>When I use the rescue disk from the original install it tells me that
>the /boot/System.map has an incorrect kernel version.
>The hard disk is vmlinux-2.2.12-20. How do I figure out what version is
>on the rescue disk?

Presumably you'd have to mount the rescue disk to see what vmlinux and System.map it has.

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