

The system boots to the GRUB prompt ( grub> ).Ĭorrupt or missing /boot/grub/menu.lst file. fdisk -l should provide sufficient guidance to determine the root filesystem.

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Rootfs: /sys/block/sda/sda1 major=8 minor=1 devn=2049 The kernel panics after trying to mount the root filesystem.

Invalid /etc/fstab entry, /dev/hdb3 is a non-existent device. Run manually!įsck failed for at least one filesystem (not /). The system fails to boot and prompts for the root password.Įrror on stat() /dev/hdb3: No such file or directoryįailed to open the device'/dev/hdb3' : No such file or directoryįsck.reiserfs /dev/hdb3 failed (status 0x8). If not, comparing its output with the contents of /etc/fstab should. The mount command should supply sufficient information.
