big problem

[J Lindroos]

I've got a problem. I had mounted my windows partition. I copied some sourcecode to windows to use it there. Then my Linux did'nt want to start. Well I have a bootable CD, and I booted it to go in to my system file, and check if it worked just to restore the kernel or something. I have done this before from the same. I mounted my Linux partition, but when ls then it gave me a file system error. So I ran fsck from the CD but the CD-player was working a very long time, and finally I just ejected, and (silly me) the CD was rotating very fast when it was ejected and then the CD was destroyed.

So I installed a mini-linux to fsxk my Linux partition, and the distro have worked before. But know the error was: Kernel panic, no init found!

/So whatsup??

[bdg1983]

It would seem your filesystem is trashed and you may have corrupted files. If the init process cannot be started, then I doubt you will be able to recover to the point of having a bootable system.

Reinstall??? Could be what your looking at.

Whatever you did, don't do it again. ;)

Have you tried booting from a Linux bootdisk to see if you can mount your Linux filesystem and at least try to backup some of your files?

[thedexman]

can you pass init=/bin/sh through lilo when it boots?