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If you got the error after rebooting the Linux Machine, just follow the follow the given steps.... 1) On command prompt...      # rpm -qi esc O/P::: Name        : esc                          Relocations: (not relocatable) Version     : 1.1.0                             Vendor: CentOS Release     : 9.el5                         Build Date: Thu 03 Sep 2009 11:59:48 PM IST Install Date: Tue 24 Nov 2009 05:37:13 AM IST      Build Host: builder10.centos.org Group   ...

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! " Error Follow the following steps. 1. Once you are at the grub screen, press c for command line. 2. On command line execute the following commands. find /grub/stage2 find /etc/hosts This will provide you the boot partition & the root partition nos. in the format (hd0,2) etc If the root partition & boot partitions are same then execute the following commands. root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-kernel version ro root=/dev/hda3 initrd /boot/initrd-version boot if the boot & root partitions are different then replace the root=/dev/hda3 with the value you get for root partition i.e. if you get (hd0,5) then replace the value with /dev/hda6. If you still get the kernel panic message, recreate the initrd image using the mkinitrd command. Hope this will work.  Regards   Kuldeep Sharma