Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 24 August 2009 11:12:49 Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2009-08-22, Andrew Reid wrote: > > That would seem to narrow it down to a corrupt initramfs, > > or, as you already suggested, motherboard hardware issues. > > Thanks for confirming the md5sum and the suggestion. It also fails boo

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Alan Greenberger wrote: > > Thank you for your suggestion. I just tried booting with init=/bin/sh > and unfortunately it got Kernel panic in the same way. > > The box was not upgraded from the Lenny install of half a year ago. It > was just shut down for two weeks. > > How would I skip initrd

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-08-24, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> >> Thanks for confirming the md5sum and the suggestion. It also fails boot >> to level 1. I used rescue to turn on /etc/default/bootlogd but nothing >> gets logged to /var/log so I guess it doesn't get that far. I would >> have liked to know where it fai

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2009-08-22, Andrew Reid wrote: >> On Friday 21 August 2009 18:11:27 Alan Greenberger wrote: >>> I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was >>> working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two >>> weeks, it starts to lo

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-08-22, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Friday 21 August 2009 18:11:27 Alan Greenberger wrote: >> I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was >> working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two >> weeks, it starts to load Lenny then dies with: >> Fa

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-21 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 21 August 2009 18:11:27 Alan Greenberger wrote: > I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was > working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two > weeks, it starts to load Lenny then dies with: > Failed to execute /init > can't open auto