I have also found the knoppix as an execellent rescue cd.
Chip
Lance A. Brown wrote:
I've used System Rescue CD for some time now on my Fedora and RHEL systems with good success. It boots, autodetects just about any kind of hardware you may have, and provides most tools you'll need to help recover a system.
http://www.sysresccd.org/
--[Lance]
Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
Thanks, Lance...
that's what I'm doing right now is finding a good floppy or CD-ROM based Linux boot image... I will investigate whether the HD0 is still intact, and if not, I will check out mkinitrd.
I really appreciate your quick response.
wab
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lance A. Brown Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 5:36 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: [TriLUG] Re: Kernel Panic - any takers?
Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
...Oh, and the error messages that occur upon an attempted boot are:
Everything looks fine until:
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Creating root device
mkrootedev: label / not found
mounting root filesystem
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed Kernel
panic: no init found. Try passing blah blah blah...
Boot a system rescue CD of some sort and make sure the initrd image for the kernel you are booting from the hard drive still exists. It may have been wiped out in the fsck. If it is gone, you'll have to rebuild it using mkinitrd.
--[Lance]
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