Thanks to all for valuable suggestions! I ended up taring /home to a FAT32 partition, then reinstalling from scratch and restoring /home. This time I set / and /home to ReiserFS (Rolf, Rob -- thanks for the advise).
Funny, after all this work -- in the new installation trying to access Zip in KDE locks up the panel again (this is where my problem started in the first place: trying to kill X at this point with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace), only this time I just waited :-) ... it does open up after a minute. Somewhat dissappointing that it is so sluggish, maybe I'll disable supermount on it... Again, thank you all for helping! Aleksey > Aleksey Naumov wrote: > > Thanks to all (Rob, Rolf, Steven) for good suggestions! > > > > No "linux-nonfb" and "failsafe" do not for me giving the same INIT > > messages. I was able to make some progress by booting with MDK 9.1 CD > > into "rescue", then going to console: > > (a) Ran fsck.ext2 on my / and it complained that the superblock is bad. > > Ran it again with the alternate superblock (8193) and fixed a whole lot > > of problems (incorrect ref counts, etc.). Still no booting, get the same > > INIT messages > > (b) Then I noticed that in my /etc there is no "rc.d" at all, no wonder > > "init" complaines that it "cannot execute /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit" and > > there are no more processes at a runlevel. Also there is no "init.d", so > > all start/stop scripts are gone. Wonder how that could have happened??? > > > > More importantly, what could I do now short of reinstalling? I don't > > have "rc.d" backed up anywhere. Is it possible to get "rc.d" by > > installing an rpm, which one then? Or do these scripts get generated > > somehow during an install? Any ideas are welcome... > > > > Thank you, > > Aleksey > > $ urpmf /etc/rc.d > initscripts:/etc/rc.d > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/dm > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/halt > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/kheader > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/killall > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_consmap > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_firstime > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/network > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/partmon > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/random > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rawdevices > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/single > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/sound > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/init.d/usb > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc.local > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc.modules > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc0.d > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S00killall > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01halt > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc1.d > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc1.d/S00single > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc2.d > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S99local > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc3.d > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99local > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc4.d > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S99local > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc5.d > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99local > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc6.d > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc6.d/S00killall > initscripts:/etc/rc.d/rc6.d/S01reboot > console-tools:/etc/rc.d/init.d/keytable > sysklogd:/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog > vixie-cron:/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond > xinetd:/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd > portmap:/etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap > XFree86-xfs:/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs > apache-conf:/etc/rc.d/init.d > apache-conf:/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd > [..] > > A lot more packages have files/directories in /etc/rc.d/././. Is your > /home a separate partition? Can you mount and read it from a rescue > session? Or, don't you say that 'failsafe' will boot for you? If so, > you can do the work from there. You might need to run fsck again. Be > careful. Think about saving /home before you do something radical. If > you mount your installation on /mnt and chroot /mnt in the rescue > session, you might be able to call man fsck to get some info. > > Also, I thought there was an option to upgrade/repair an existing > Mandrake installation when you booted CD1. Can't say from experience > but such a process might work in this case. It would be better to copy > the valuable things in /home somewhere safe, first. I would recommend > installing on reiserfs if you have to do a complete install again. > There are other journalling filesystems but I have had a good history > with reiserfs. > > Rolf -- Aleksey Naumov GIS Analyst Center for Health and Social Research Buffalo State College
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