On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:24:54PM -0400, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > > Hi! > > Thank you for your answer. I have tried passing to the boot prompt > > linux root=/dev/hda9 init=/sbin/init, > > but the result is the same as before. Actually /sbin is on the root > partition. > > I guess the reason why my system hanged, was that I tried suspending to > disk while my ethernet card was working. It hanged while writing > a huge list of messages on the console. I shut the power down, and now it > does not work. > > Do you have any other ideas what to try? Should I reinstall everything? I > hope there is something more to try. Hi Alessandro, Since you can boot from a floppy, I would try reinstalling the kernel or a new kernel using chroot before reinstalling everything. If the rescue floppy you have doesn't have chroot, you might try tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/). Jerome > > Thank you very much > > Alessandro > > On 22 Apr 2002, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 15:08, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > My laptop hanged, and I shut it down. Afterwards it cannot boot. > > > After loading linux, it stops saying roughly > > > > > > > > > Partition check > > > hda: hda1 .... > > > apm: Bios version ... > > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesyustem) readonly. > > > Freeing unused memory ... > > > > > > > Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > > > > > > > > > I have tried passing the option init=/sbin/init, and also init=/bin/sh. It > > > did not work. So I downloaded a rescue image, and with that I was able to > > > boot with a root on the floppy. I have checked the root > > > partition on the hard disk: /sbin/init is there and is ok (I have > > > replaced it with a copy from another system), and also inittab looks > > > ok. But the original root partition still does not work and gives the > > > same message. > > > > > > The last time this happened to me (alas is not the first one!) I > > > reinstalled everything. I hope somebody can advise some softer way to proceed. > > > > This is very strange! Especially to happen twice! What are you doing to > > your system? > > > > Is the filesystem that the kernel is mounting as root really the root > > filesystem? Or is it mounting another filesystem thinking it is root? Is > > sbin in that filesystem? Try passing the root= parameter to the kernel > > as well with the root partition. eg. linux root=/dev/hda3 > > init=/sbin/init. > > > > Copying init from another system may have been very bad if that system > > had init compiled against a different libc. > > > > What were you doing before this happened? Was it a kernel upgrade gone > > wrong? > > > > Crispin > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Jerome
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