[K12OSN] Booting Problems

[ben may]

K12LTSP 4.0.1
i'll try that when i get a chance
Thanks

Ben May
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:52:36 -0500
> From: Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com>
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Booting Problems
> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools."
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> On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 01:09, ben may wrote:
> > after having a power cut, i realised that my UPS was not working, now at
> > boot my server says 'Kernel Panic: No Init found try passing init=
option '
> > after google-ing that there were a few people that have had the same
> > problem. but no answers.
> >
> > I have alot of data that i dont want to loose so re-installing is my
last
> > option, or can i just reinstall with out loosing data in /home dir?
>
> Out of curiosity, is this an old 3.x system with ext2 filesystems
> or 4.x with ext3?  I've had several ext2 problems where the
> automatic fsck at bootup would fail because there were too many
> errors, but it would drop to a shell and suggest doing it
> manually.  Doing that and answering 'y' to all the fixes always
> worked for me as long as the drive was still functioning.
>
> I'd try booting the install CD first, with 'linux rescue' at
> the boot prompt.  This may perform the fsck you need and will
> try to mount the existing partitions so you can chroot there
> and check things out.  The fedora based versions will also
> offer to bring up the network interfaces so you could back
> up some files if the root partition is hopelessly broken.
> If the partitions look OK in the rescue mount but still
> won't boot, you may be able to fix it by doing an 'upgrade'
> from the CD's instead of an install.
>
> I'll plug backuppc again (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/)
> as the most painless way to have backup copies of things
> when you need them.
>
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