On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Eric Brackenbury wrote: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1555031 > This Saved the Day so it works, When /sbin/init could not be found > by the computer. > > >From the above link: > < > Re: Kernel Panic after updates - /sbin/init > ok, problem hopefully solved - I am typing this from my Ubuntu > installation, not the LiveCD. > I did the following from the LiveCD though. > First, I mounted my installation at /mnt using > Code: > > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt > > Then, I opened Nautilus as root > Code: > > gksu nautilus > > Then , i browsed to /mnt/sbin/init, opened its Properties>Permissions > and selected Allow Read and Write for user root. Also, checked off the > Allow Running File as Program box. > Then, browsed to /mnt/etc/init,, opened Properties of the entire > folder> Permissions and selected Allow Read and Write for user root > and clicked on Apply Permissions to Enclosed Files. > Then simply rebooted and it worked. > Note: One of the two steps might be unnecessary, but I am not going to > go back and find out. > Last edited by nightshade209; August 17th, 2010 at 03:06 PM.. > > > > > I am grateful to those who have got me far enough into CLI to > implement this sort of thing and understand what I just did ! > And if your reading this you know who you are. > Kindest regards > Eric not to be overly pedantic, but please don't top post -- it makes reading your post unnecessarily confusing. as to the issue you ran into, i suspect a simpler solution would have been to override the invocation of the init program by using "init=/bin/sh" at the grub boot line. that option causes the kernel to skip executing /sbin/init in favour of whatever executable you put there. i haven't verified it but i'm guessing that if you boot straight to a shell, you can change the properties of whatever files you want in the root directory, includind the permissions on /sbin/init or whatever else you want. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================