[linux-audio-user] Ardour Crash + can't boot

reposting this cuz I ALWAYS forget to make the messages plain text from my windows machine: Hello all - this has actually become a general problem, but I think it was caused by Ardour, so I'm cross posting on linux audio and the ardour lists I'm running Red Hat and the latest ardour from Planet CCRMA which I think is 0.9beta11.2-1 - I was recording a take, and upon pushing stop Ardour crashed - a similar has happened many times with this version, actually pretty much every time - after the take, it gives me a memory error, I click ok, ardour exits, I go back, but it kept the take. but this time, it crashed without that, i started ardour again, the take WASN'T there, and then ardour either froze or crashed I can't remember which cuz I was in session so it was hectic, and I needed to reboot manually and so I did, and now, though, it won't boot - it hangs and says "kernel panic. no init found. try passing the init= option" I can provide more details if needed - I think the kernel is also the latest planet kernel - but from what I've been able to find I don't think it matters. so I grabbed my emergency boot disk, or what I think is my emergency boot disk, because I have never used it, and reset, and I get what I'm sure is a familiar prompt to most, the 'ol boot: and it's telling me to hit return or wait ten seconds to boot from /dev/hda2 (hmmm - is that where the boot loader really is on my system? not sure) - and that I can "type "linux <params>", and press <return> if I want to override the defaults now I know nothing about these params and I'm more familiar with a dos boot disk where i shove that thing in and reboot and I'm looking at a dos prompt even if my harddrive is totally wanked. what I've read has told me to boot up and edit some files - fstab maybe? but uh - *blush* - how can I get to a danged prompt? for the ardour list: does this sound familiar, is this version of ardour known to do this kind of thing?