Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.

[Dale]

tedheadster wrote:
> Yes, you do need to capture the kernel output.
>
> The usual way is to hook up a serial cable to another computer and
> pipe the output to it. You interrupt the boot (usually by hitting
> <shift> or <tab> in GRUB), and then edit the kernel command line thus:
>
> console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200n8
>
> If you can do that you can give us some debug output.
>
> - Matthew
>
>


Could she boot from some other media, mount the partitions to get to
dmesg and get it from that?  Or since it may not be mounting any
partitons, would that lead down the wrong path if it is outdated? 

Dale

:-)  :-)