Here's the deal. I'm pretty new with linux. I had been running it for about 4 months on my laptop prior to now. I just got a new 10.1 gig Hard Drive and decided to put XP on because I still need it for a few things. Well XP gets approximately 3.7 gigs. Red Hat gets the Rest. I made XP Fat32 and finished that install. I then installed RedHat 8.0 on the Remaining freespace, I let The setup do everything it self. It made the swap space, and other partitions etc etc... It installed fine. It boot up to Grub and I choose Linux to boot (DOS showed up as well) It booted up fine, I signed in as root. all went well. I went in anc changed my line in Grub.conf to
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=idebus=66
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img

and then restarted. I went in went back into linux again just to test. The reason i put that idebus=66 was something i had read somewhere. Anywho, I rebooted fine and got logged back in fine, the i restarted and went into XP to see if it still worked. It did, except right away it ran the XP scan disk and found something wrong and supposably fixed some file. Well i thought that was odd so I reboot again and choose Linux, now when i try and boot up it Chokes and tells me
Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel, and me being new i have no idea what that means.

some of the screen output before it chokes is...
Loading ext3 module
Mounting /proc filesystem
Creating block devices
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed
Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel

and now.... XP boots (blah, but i'm lost at what to do to my RH installation)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, because I use my laptop for programming for my Operating Systems class....
Thanks again

My guess is that WinXP wiped one of your partitions? I suggest getting a single floppy distro and booting that so you can check what partitions exist and what filesystem is on them? Go to linux.org and look in distributions there are a few listed there.

I'm pretty sure my partitions are there because i boot from my installation CD and used the linux rescue and it mounted my file system and i could navigate around.... Plus Grub does load up still.
I'm still drawing a blank on what really to check though. I contemplated re-installing RH 8.0 but who's to say I wont have the same problem again. That after booting into XP i can't get back into RH.
Any other suggestions?

Can you get to your grub.conf file?

Yeah, with a my boot cd (installation CD) I can navigate to the grub.conf file..... But i dunno what to do about it....

Well mine might will surely not be exactly the same, but I'll share it just to try to help out?

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda2 hdd=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img

Well, i took out everything about Idebus=66 and after root i put in /dev/hda2 which dind't work. But then i checked and i think ha2 is my boot partition, so i set it up for /dev/hda3 and it booted right up. Thanks for all of your help.

No problem...be careful when upgrading your XP by the way. There was another post somewhere about it causing trouble with other operating systems.