[ILUG] Kernel panic - not sync: attempted to kill init

[Belgarath]

On Thursday 02 August 2007 19:10:33 Colin O'Keeffe wrote:
> Our debian server had a power failure and this is the result after a reboot
>
> SCSI device sda: 312477 512-byte hdwr sectors (159989MB)
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: writeback, no read
> Attempting manual rescue
> swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data
> exec: 433: /sbin/init : not found
> Kernel panic - not sync: Attempted to kill init
>
Make sure that hard-drive does not make any funny sounds(restarts every second 
or so) because error that you are getting is a harddrive failure or 
filesystem one  if you harddrive seams to be ok just boot some livecd and 
make fsck on it.