On 2009-08-22, Andrew Reid <rei...@bellatlantic.net> wrote: > On Friday 21 August 2009 18:11:27 Alan Greenberger wrote: >> I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was >> working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two >> weeks, it starts to load Lenny then dies with: >> Failed to execute /init >> can't open auto >> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > >> iA linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 >> Version 2.6.26-13 >> The md5sum of /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 is >> 824cfba2eac12d0c09747c0bd3426e4e > > I think your checksum is OK, with a caveat -- it's the > right checksum for the advertised 2.6.26-13 version of that > package, which is distinct from 2.6.26-13lenny2, the latter > being the most recent 2.6.26-1 kernel for Debian lenny, which > in turn is not the most 2.6.26 kernel, there is a 2.6.26-2 > out. > > I checksummed it by pulling the file out of > /var/cache/apt/archives, manually unpacking it in a working > directory, and running md5sum on the resulting $DIR/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1 > file. > > So, you're apparently behind on kernel updates, but your > kernel does not seem to be corrupt. > > That would seem to narrow it down to a corrupt initramfs, > or, as you already suggested, motherboard hardware issues. > > I don't have a huge amount of experience with this, but > I did once have a similar issue -- I had a server that wouldn't > fully boot, it would just hang, always in different places in > the boot sequence. But, it could boot to single-user mode, > and if you then started all the /etc/init.d services manually, > it would run fine for months at a time. > > I never did figure that one out, I eventually got rid of > the machine. > > -- A.
Thanks for confirming the md5sum and the suggestion. It also fails boot to level 1. I used rescue to turn on /etc/default/bootlogd but nothing gets logged to /var/log so I guess it doesn't get that far. I would have liked to know where it fails, since it does boot rescue CDs. I am giving up assuming it is the motherboard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
