Hi, It was only two days ago that I received this Lemote netbook, getting it mainly for text editing, and to learn about MIPS and the debian os. But you see I am still very much a novice in the domain and am liable to destroy the computer with a wrong keypress.. The problem I am having now is that the computer will not completely boot up, displaying an error message, "Kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init!" I've looked online to see if others have had similar issues, but cannot not find a case like mine that I can fully understand. There are probably many possible causes, and hopefully solutions as well. I am a complete naive in this realm, but I am here to learn. I received this error message after having to reboot the computer before because the screen went all wacky displaying itself in a lower-than-usual resolution and in three copies in a droste effect fashion.. This happened after I sought to upgrade the computer using the sudo apt-get upgrade command. That was obviously not a wise choice because the computer was working just fine before, and there was really no need to upgrade.. While the computer was upgrading there were a few packages that were being installed that could not be authenticated, but I installed anyway because after a quick glance at the list of packages I saw some of them which would come in handy later. Many of those unauthenticated packages I knew nothing of yet thought they must be important if they are to appear here... the packages were being installed, and then the computer informs me that a config file (not entirely sure, I really should have kept notes; it may have been called "sources.list") needed to be rewritten or may it said that the package source had an alternative.. so I went along with it. that was that. Excuse my ignorance please, I expected to run into problems but not ones so catastrophic. Now all I can do to communicate with the Lemote is by stepping into PMON and invoking commands from there... When I enter PMON there is some text above the prompt which says "BEV in SR set to ZERO" .. I am not sure if that is normal or what.. I hope someone can help me out and show me how to fix this problem as I am not sure what powerful forces I am mingling with here... Meanwhile I am looking around on on linux-loongson community forums and wiki.
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