On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:19:35PM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote: > Reid Mumford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:09:50PM -0500, Reid Mumford wrote: > > > > EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended > > > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > > > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > > > > change_root: old root has d_count=1 > > > > Trying to unmount old root ... okay > > > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed > > > > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel > > > > > > > > Any ideas on how to save this system without having to reinstall? > > > > > > try booting up with init=/bin/sh and see if you can get yourself > > > a root prompt. if so, you're golden. you might need to > > > reinstall some packages (like sysvinit), and i don't know what > > > the easiest way is to find packages that might have corrupted > > > files though. > > > no love from the init=/bin/sh option.
What you're experiencing sounds suspiciously like what happened to me when I nuked by C library... Fortunately, if you have the deb of libc6 around (on your install CD), you may be able to recover. > Than you're really bad off! Have you examined the contents of your / > partition, e.g. from a recue CD? Do this... > What does it look like? Is /sbin/init there? Is it executable? I suspect it will be. Then: reinstall libc6... which you will probably have to do by hand as I'm guessing that dpkg won't be working. Assuming that what is normally your root filesystem is mounted on /mnt, and has a usable and empty tmp in it, copy the libc6 deb from your install CD into /mnt/tmp and then cd /mnt/tmp ar -x libc6_*.deb tar xzf data.tar.gz ls -l (so you can see what's just happened...) cp -a lib/* /mnt/lib cp -a sbin/* /mnt/sbin (and so on for other relevant directories) cd / chroot /mnt /sbin/ldconfig Then try the reboot... with a bit of luck (and if my diagnosis is correct) you'll be up again. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
