Re: Kernel panic. No init found
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 08:39, Tim wrote:
> At 06:49 20/07/02 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> >I think that reinstallation is probably your only viable option now.
I see nothing below to change my opinion! I admire your ...
persistence.
> Sorry about the delay in my reply-normal life took over for a while.
>
> Progress has been made! Now I can boot to a root prompt. I've had to
> recreate symbolic links for 35 files, in /lib, /usr/lib and
> /usr/X11R6/lib. This took a while! I located the most by typing 'find / |
> grep *.so*'; all broken links were identified by 'No such file or directory".
>
> But: I haven't got X running as yet. I don't know the significance of
> this error which I get during the boot phase:
>
> chmod: getting attributes of '/dev/ttyeb': Input/output error
> chown: getting attributes of '/dev/ttyeb': Input/output error
I don't know exactly what is going on here, but chmod and chown are
trying to read the inode of /dev/ttyeb to get information about it; that
read is failing, which indicates damage to the structure of the
filesystem itself, or damage to the /dev directory at least. Does "ls
-l /dev" show sensible results?
> I'm wondering if there might be another area of libraries where links are
> broken? The function 'more' is broken, with the following message:
Don't assume it is only links that are broken.
> /bin/more: -rwxr-xr-x: command not found
Do you have any idea of the context of that?
> I've attached my XFree86.0.log. In my daemon.log, I get the message
>
> gdm_server_spawn: Xserver not found: /usr/bin/X11/X -deferglyphs 16
> -nolisten tcp
/etc/X11/X is a symlink to the installed X server.
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