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Kernel Panic

Asked by kris wilber

My laptop was working just fine this morning and saw that I had updates so I updated it. I restarted it and now i'm getting a Kernel Panic: Attempting to Kill init. i am using 10.4 just wondering what is going on and how I can fix it with out losing all of my stuff.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Boot, press Shift right away to see the boot menu, choose the previous kernel.
Maybe reinstall the last updated kernel image and test again.

Make sure your disk isn't full.
CLI:
free
sudo fdisk -l

In case clean-up via recovery mode.
Try to boot into recovery mode and follow options there which may repair the system.
http://unixlab.blogspot.com/2009/08/exploring-ubuntu-recovery-mode.html

If other kernel images also fail, it's about time to go deeper.
From LiveCD backup important data first. Then start to investigate.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCdRecovery

Run Mem test from boot menu or from LiveCD. Run fsck.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MemoryTest
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SystemAdministration/Fsck

FYI.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-kernel-70/kernel-panic-not-syncing-attempted-to-kill-init-313273/#post3320026

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