kernel panic

[Emilio Brusa]

Hi i have RedHat9 and show me a follow error when startup the machine

kernel panic:attempted to kill init

yesterday install tomcat and JDK in this server.

and today in the reboot give that error.

thakx

E.

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hello Emilio,

RedHat has a startup mode where you can manually confirm each startup script. Try to run that and exclude the Tomcat startup to check if this is really the problem.

Greetigns, Martin

[Emilio Brusa]

Martin:
How can i do exclude the tomcat in the scripts ?

[Stuart Browne]

It depends on how it is started.

If it was a nice installation, and dropped in the startup scripts like RH do, then the following should work:

chkconfig tomcat off

If it wasn't, then you'll need to find how (in the /etc/rc.d/rc?.d/ files) it is started, and either remove (or re-name) the appropriate Stomcat files.

It seems odd that this would cause a kernel panic however. You might want to try running it manually to see if the kernel panic comes back.

Looking at the error though, something is definately a bit off-kilter. Nothing should be trying to kill 'init'.

[Vernon Brown_4]

When the boot script first starts I think it is the I character you enter to get into interactive mode. When script asks to start Tomcat; decline.

Vern

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

I recommend to try single-user mode -

you should choose runlevel "1" in GRUB loader