kernel init error

Tue Mar 30 02:44:03 CST 2004

On Monday, March 22, 2004 08:31 am, JJ Watson wrote:

> After doing nothing more than opening the case to air out the dust, my
> machine is now unable to boot. There is a mount error 22 mounting ext3,
> followed by a retry and kernel panic:No init found. I am running Mandrake
> 9.2 with /boot on hda1. Any ideas? I have the sinking feeling that my HD is
> dead.

Open it back up again, and look for what went wrong.  I suspect a loose data 
cable on the HDD.  Can you hear it spin up when you power on?  Check the 
power cables too.