Re: why /sys cannot be copied?
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Sjors Gielen <mailinglist@dazjorz.com> wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> Star Liu wrote:
>>> , but
>>> the /sys in the new system is a folder, so i tried to copy the sys
>>> folder from new system to broken system, by cp /sys /root/OldRoot/sys,
>>> but it says many files in the new sys folder cannot be read! why? how
>>> could I resove the "mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: Invalid
>>> argument" problem?
>>> also the "run-init: /sbin/init: No such file or directory" problem? thanks
>>
>>
>> /sys is a virtual filesystem that is created by the kernel on boot. It
>> is not a real file system on your hard disk. It seems obvious that your
>> broken system does not have a valid /sys since it did not manage to boot
>> properly. It should be automatically recreated, once your 'old' system
>> boots fine.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Johannes
>
> Star Liu wrote:
>>> and i fount that the /sys in the broken system is a shell file
>
> A shell file? You should remove that file, and create a directory. Sys
> will be mounted upon it automatically.
>
> Mounting /sys on /root/sys makes no sense - could you paste the
> /etc/fstab of your old system here please?
thank you for your explanation, here is the /etc/fstab of my broken system
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda4 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
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seems no /sys, then where does those error message come from?
> Also, not having /sbin/init is much of a problem. Is there a /sbin/init
> in your old system?
yes, there is, it's a 36.5KB executable file.
> Sjors
>
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