Once upon a time Reid Mumford wrote @ Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:09:50 -0500 (EST) > I have a problem that has brought my laptop down. > > I recently installed KDE 3.1 and everything seemed to be working pretty > well. I was messing around with the file browser in kde and suddenly > started to get some weird error messages. I tried to shutdown and it > complained that shutdown was "not executable". I finally had to > power-cycle the machine. > > When i booted the next time it looked like it was trying to access some > memory on the disk that was outside the physical range of the disk... > complained like crazy and then hung. > > I was able to boot with a debian rescue cd, mount my root filesystem and > clean things up with fsck. > > when i tried to boot after that, it looks like it is able to mount the > root fs but it complains about not being able to find init. Out of > desperation, i tried booting the rescue cd with the root= kernel argument > to point to my root partition, that is: > > linux root=/dev/hda2 > > this results in the following error messages on boot: > > EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > change_root: old root has d_count=1 > Trying to unmount old root ... okay > Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel > > this is basically the same thing that i get when i boot without the cd > too. > > Any ideas on how to save this system without having to reinstall? > Too late for a reply, But just reporting. perhaps anyone can benefit from it one day The same here when i accidentally removed the /lib/ld-linux.so.2 symlink when i was creating my own rescue disk ;) -- ---------------- -- Katoob Main Developer Linux registered user # 224950 ICQ # 58475622 FIRST make it run, THEN make it run fast "Brian Kernighan".
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