Re: kernel panic: unable to mount root fs...
OK. I booted from the rescue floppy and ran fsck on /dev/hda2. Judging by the messages that
streamed by, there were a lot of problems that were fixed. However, when I went back to boot up
the system, I got another mess of nasty looking messages:
INIT: No inittab file found
Enter runlevel: <I tried everything from 0 to 3 and got the same result...>
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
and it stopped right there. I booted back in with the rescue floppy, and checked out mu /etc
directory, and it was full of all sorts of strange files, many of them being *.html files.
What<s my best option here? Should I just start from scratch? Is it possible to re-install and
re-configure the system with a good chance of keeping everything I have installed so far?
John Kiff
--- Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
> Boot floppies get their kernel from the floppy, but still use the /
> filesystem on the harddrive (which is where the problem is).
>
> Try booting with a rescue floppy and running fsck on the partition
> containing the / filesystem. The rescue floppy is self contained and
> will not access the hardrive unless you specifically mount a partition.
>
> - Bruce
>
> --
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote:
>
> > Help!!!
> >
> > I got the following messages when I was booting up:
> >
> > "EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted:"
> >
> > followed a few lines later by:
> >
> > "kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on 03:02"
> >
> > after which everything stops. The same thing happened when I tried using my boot floppy.
> >
> > What should I do? My first reaction is to go back to square one and reinstall Debian (I'm
> > currently using 2.2). However, before I take such drastic measures, is there a quicker and
> simpler
> > way of getting everything back up and running?
> >
> > John Kiff
> >
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>
> later,
>
> Bruce
>
>
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