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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > A > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFImNPtaIeIEqwil4YRAg9tAJ4tIQX4XFyIivBJW5wxX5ZGW1g1PQCg5Jiy > IxrySjkA2MwFqZ2DwLKD/8o= > =CE58 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]