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jalbes · 10-18-2003, 11:29 AM

Hi:
I'm a long time windows user, first time Linux user.

I just got my hands on an old pentium 233 with 32megs of RAM, and I wanted to make a firewall/router for my home network. So naturally, after reading some articles, I chose Linux.

But as always, something had to go wrong.

I started with Slackware, and after booting up with 6 boot disks, I would get an error on the last disk. A taste of things to come! Thinking that it was just a bad copy I decided to atleast see how Win 2000 would run on it. Once installed it ran ok, but took 7 minutes to boot, lol.

So I downloaded Mandrake Linux, and botted from CD. I've tried installing it 3 time, in 3 different ways (basic, advanced and without NIC cards). But once finished installing and I reboot to login, it stops at this error:

VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1).
mount: error 22 mounting ext3 flags Freeing unused kerel memory: 260k
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

I'm new to this, but it seems like it's unable to find my hard drive or partition.

Is this correct? And does anyone know how I can go about correcting this problem?

10-18-2003, 11:29 AM	#1
jalbes Member (9 bit) Join Date: Jul 2000 Posts: 257	Kernel Panic: No init found... Hi: I'm a long time windows user, first time Linux user. I just got my hands on an old pentium 233 with 32megs of RAM, and I wanted to make a firewall/router for my home network. So naturally, after reading some articles, I chose Linux. But as always, something had to go wrong. I started with Slackware, and after booting up with 6 boot disks, I would get an error on the last disk. A taste of things to come! Thinking that it was just a bad copy I decided to atleast see how Win 2000 would run on it. Once installed it ran ok, but took 7 minutes to boot, lol. So I downloaded Mandrake Linux, and botted from CD. I've tried installing it 3 time, in 3 different ways (basic, advanced and without NIC cards). But once finished installing and I reboot to login, it stops at this error: VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1). mount: error 22 mounting ext3 flags Freeing unused kerel memory: 260k Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. I'm new to this, but it seems like it's unable to find my hard drive or partition. Is this correct? And does anyone know how I can go about correcting this problem?