Re: Un-bootable kernel due to bad initrd (Solved)

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> > on Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:53:36AM +0200, Andrei Popescu 
> > (andreimpopescu@yahoo.com) wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > This is unstable ... indeed it is :)
> > >
> > > This seems to be |Bug#343042
> > >
> > > |Just to summarize:
> > > i just did an '#aptitude upgrade' and my kernel 2.6.14 got upgraded 
> > > (and probably yaird allong the way too). Due to the yaird mentioned 
> > > above the created initrd image is bad and Debian won't boot. Because 
> > > it was a minor kernel upgrade i don't have a backup kernel...won't do 
> > > *that* mistake again :)
> > >
> > > Is it possible to recover from this? All i have is a Knoppix CD (the 
> > > windoze doesn't count :D) and another machine with stable on it 
> > > (kernel 2.6.8). I don't want to repair this the M$ way (format c:)
> > >   
> >
> >
> > Boot Knoppix.  Mount your installed root partition.  Chroot into it.
> > Mount any additional partitions underneath it.
> >
> > You're now effectively in your installed system.  Install / remove /
> > configure packages as necessary, rebuild your initrd, etc.
> >
> >
> > Peace.
> >
> >  
> Actually i had already tried this, but then i didn't know yaird was the 
> culprit so it failed. It worked now, after purging yaird and solving 
> another error (/dev/null:  Permission denied)
> For archive readers: before chrooting you need to mount you / partition 
> avoiding Knoppix' fstab
> #mount -o rw /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4

What's the right mount command, with '-o exec'?

H


> This is explained on Knoppix' site.
>
> thanks for the impulse though, i was just about to give up. i had no 
> ideea if it is even possible to recover from this (without guru 
> knowledge :D ), but linux amazed me *again*
>
> Regards