Re: 2.6.24-4 kernel not booting
i appriciate your help.
i am not new to linux but i am new to lvm and raid and recovery.
if you give me some simple steps, i can follow.
i would really like the help because my main ssystem is down.
please provide step by step proceedure..to ensure that i get my system
up and running.
can you point me to a how-to or something ??
mjh
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Andrew Sackville-West
<andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:09:10PM -0400, Michael Habashy wrote:
>> can anyone help on this???
>> I get into a busybox prompt and can not do much.
>> Can i get a list of procedures on how to recover my system ???
>> I am using lvm2 on top of raid. (raid1 for boot and raid5 for root and
>> the rest of my system)
>> I am able to but with the debian 4.0 dvd and get into rescue mode. I
>> can then create a directory and mount my /dev/md0 device
>>
>> I can see all my files on the boot partition including my kernels
>> ...all seems okay...just do not know where to go from here.
>
> can you boot into a previous kernel?
>
> when you are in the busybox shell, are you able to manually mount your
> partitions?
> I suspect not based on the messages below.
>
> if you have no previous kernel to boot from, you will likely have to
> boot rescue media, chroot into the system and rebuild from
> there.
>
> Without more info, I would suggest either
>
> dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.24blahblahblah
>
> don't do *all* your linux images because if your initramfs stuff is
> broken, then all your initrds will get broken as a result.
>
>>
>> thanks
>> mjh
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > I upgraded my system to the latest kernel along with all the other packages.
>> > While installing I found that the "initrd" line in grub's menu.lst was not
>> > being
>> > created and so I had to manually add it.
>
> what specifically did you manually add? Perhaps you added the wrong
> initrd? Not sure what happens in that situation, but I bet it looks
> like what you're seeing.
>
> remember that you can edit your boot lines on the fly in grub...
>
>> > Upon booting I get the certain messages and then find myself in the
>> > initramfs
>> > prompt. I tried reinstalling the concerned packages but to no avail.
>> >
>> > Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ...
>> > mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or
>> > directory
>> > Done.
>> > mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
>> > mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
>> > Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init
>> > No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
>> >
>> > Busybox.... Built-in shell (ash)
>> > /bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
>> > (initramfs) /* prompt */
>
> whatever other specific details you can provide will help.
>
> ls -l /boot
>
> and maybe a copy of grub's menu.lst
>
> would be good starting places.
>
>
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