Re: Re: Can't boot "Kernel panic: No init found" -- partially solved
After many hours of trial and error, and Googling, I finally discovered
that I had somehow deleted my /lib directory. init wouldn't run, but
didn't give any usefull error, so the kernel just reported that init was
missing.
I restored a 6 month old backup, booted with error messages, but
couldn't log in due to missing pam libs. I found a three month old
backup and restored it and can now Log in!!!
Now, how can I use Apt and Dpkg to insure I have the newest/correct
versions of everything?
How can I force re-installation of all my packages since my 3 month old
backup?
Is that the best way to do it?
I've got a log of most of the updates I've done.
Thanks again,
Rich B
Original post:
>> I can no longer boot my Sarge laptop. Here are the last few lines of
>> boot up:
>>
>> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
>> Freeing unused kernel momory 208k freed
>> kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
>>
>> I use GRUB and have tried adding the kernel parameters
>>'init=/sbin/init'
>> and 'init=/bin/bash'. No dice.
>>Booting older kernels gives the same results.
>>
>>I've booted with my recovery CD and fsck'ed my file system. No problems
>>found. I've confirmed that init exists and executes.
>>
>>I'm stumped. HELP!!!!
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