On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Sjors Gielen <mailingl...@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 ------------- # /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 -------------- 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org