Re: Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-13 Thread Craig Puetz
Check the startup messages (page up on the initial screen if you can) and verify that /usr is mounting correctly. I recently had a similar problem on a machine that had /usr installed in a partition separate from /. Without /usr mounted, the machine could not find grep/egrep, which breaks some i

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-03 Thread kenn
Kent West wrote: > > kenn wrote: > > >> >> I did this, and I could see my mounted drive ... but if i tried to ls, i >> >> got mostly garbage, so i've probably done something ELSE wrong. >> >> >> >> I went back to the knoppix boot to see if I had further destroyed >> >> anything, but fortunately, ev

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-02 Thread Kent West
kenn wrote: I did this, and I could see my mounted drive ... but if i tried to ls, i got mostly garbage, so i've probably done something ELSE wrong. I went back to the knoppix boot to see if I had further destroyed anything, but fortunately, everything there still looks the same, so at least I

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: Okay, you're right ... I DO need to think of this as a learning experience. In this case, I have no line with a "not found" message Okay. So on the line that says "not found", what file is on the left? Oops; I see that I misread "I have no line..." as "I hav

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
kenn wrote: Kent West wrote: If one of the files says something can't be found, like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> ldd /bin/ls linux-gate.so.1 => (0xe000) librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/librt.so.1 (0xb7fd) libacl.so.1 => /lib/libacl.so.1 (0xb7fc8000) libselin

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread kenn
Kent West wrote: > kenn wrote: > >> Kent West wrote: >> >> >>> kenn wrote: >>> >>> Kent West wrote: > kenn wrote: > > > >> Greetings. >> >> I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early >> on, it >>

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it Maybe rename the rc[whatever]. directory so no services/daemons start up, and reboot normally, and go from there? Af

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
kenn wrote: Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: Greetings. I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it Try mounting the partitions -- "mount -a". You may need to remount / in rw mode if you need

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
kenn wrote: maybe it's time to give up and move on, rather than further waste anyone's time ... Well, sure, you _could_ do that. But you're missing out on a learning experience. but before I do, let me ask one more thing: since the drive seems to be okay (I can see all the files when boot

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread kenn
kenn wrote: > Kent West wrote: >> kenn wrote: >> >>> Kent West wrote: >>> >>> kenn wrote: > Greetings. > > I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it > >> Try mounting the partitions -- "mount -a". You may need to remount / in >> rw mode

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread kenn
Kent West wrote: > kenn wrote: > >> Kent West wrote: >> >> >>> kenn wrote: >>> >>> Greetings. I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it >> > Try mounting the partitions -- "mount -a". You may need to remount / in > rw mode if you need to make chan

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
kenn wrote: Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: Greetings. I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it display a Copyright notice for grep, then for egrep, then for grep again, then for egrep again, then hangs I've booted the computer from a Knoppix

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
kenn wrote: Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: Greetings. I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it display a Copyright notice for grep, then for egrep, then for grep again, then for egrep again, then hangs I've booted the computer from a Knoppix

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread kenn
Kent West wrote: > kenn wrote: > >> Greetings. >> >> I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it >> display a Copyright notice for grep, then for egrep, then for grep >> again, then for egrep again, then hangs I've booted the computer >>from a Knoppix CD and can se

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread kenn
Kent West wrote: > kenn wrote: > >> Greetings. >> >> I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it >> display a Copyright notice for grep, then for egrep, then for grep >> again, then for egrep again, then hangs I've booted the computer >>from a Knoppix CD and can se

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
kenn wrote: >Greetings. > >I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it >display a Copyright notice for grep, then for egrep, then for grep >again, then for egrep again, then hangs I've booted the computer >from a Knoppix CD and can see all the files, I just can't g

Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread kenn
Greetings. I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it display a Copyright notice for grep, then for egrep, then for grep again, then for egrep again, then hangs I've booted the computer from a Knoppix CD and can see all the files, I just can't get it to boot. I a