i booted up my laptop to check my email this evening, and e2fsck
declares it's been 22 mounts or more and starts chugging away. it
dies, so i knoppix-boot and manually e2fsck -y the thing so i don't
have to sit there and babysit it. it finishes, so i reboot and take
the knoppix CD out.
but it kernel-panics -- "no init found." so i knoppix back in, mount
my root partition, and lo an behold, my system's trashed. instead of
bin/ dev/ etc/ et cetera, i see lines upon lines of:
#1030177 #163 #196286 #210 #354 #376679 #387 #886
#1046529 #164 #196287 #212577 #355 #376680 #388 #887
#1062892 #165 #196288 #212578 #356 #376681 #389 #888
#107 #166 #196292 #212588 #357 #376682 #390 #889
#108 #1667909 #196294 #224 #358 #376683 #391 #890
...
all my system files and everything are in these directories and
folders. it feels as though my house has been broken into and
trashed, or something!
so i start going through the ones that are directories, and seeing
what i can recognize. so far i've got:
bin boot dev etc home root sbin usr var vmlinuz
the vmlinuz i linked myself, to boot/2.4.20-1-686.
but still no dice. Chroot seems to be the thing with the problem:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /devfs/root2, or
too many mounted filesystems
pivot_root: No such file or directory
chroot: /sbin/init: No such file or directory
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
i've never heard of /devfs, let alone root2.
help? i *really* don't want to reinstall this from scratch ... but i
will if i have to.
thanks a lot,
</nori>
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