On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 04:37:36PM +0000, michael wrote: > Hands up to making a mistake - I've been trying to get my AMD64 Debian > 'etch' box to recognise a Promise controller and thought that installing > dmraid would help. I did a > apt-get install dmraid > and then rebooted... only to find it in BusyBox with a initramfs prompt > and no idea as how to recover to a working system... > > I can see it's trying to run some /scripts and then kinit does something > before attempting to 'resume' and saying there is no resume image then > trying a normal boot but saying it can not read the image (then many more > lines of complaints but am unsure how to copy to another machine) maybe setup a serial terminal to allow capture of the session. > > > Any ideas? I'd guess rebooting somehow without these scripts and then > removing dmraid would return me to a wokring system but I'm unsure how to > do even this! best bet is probably to boot a live-cd and chroot into the system and attempt to fixup from there. At a guess, you're initrd can't find / in the real system. You *might* be able to get it mounted from within busybox and then `exit` to get it to continue the boot. But the tools are pretty limited and it requires a goodly bit of poking around to see exactly what the problem is... A
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