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On 6/20/06, Mike Markowski <mm@××××.edu> wrote: |
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> Here's a little more info that might inspire some ideas out there in |
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> gentoo land. Since my /boot partition was possibly in a generally |
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> unhappy state, I booted the 2006.0 livecd, did a "mkfs /dev/sda1" (my |
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> /boot partition), then put grub and kernel stuff back on /boot. I was |
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> confident this would do it, but no go. Just to be sure nothing was left |
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> out, I even went through the grub set up process again as Daniel |
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> recommended in another post in this thread. Still no change. |
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> The boot process continues just prior to the "INIT 2.86" line when the |
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> init.d stuff is kicked off. While booted with the livecd, I checked and |
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> /sbin/init really is there (mine, not the livecd one). But when I tried |
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> to pass "init=/sbin/init" as a kernel arg in grub.conf, I got the same |
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> panic along with a message that /sbin/init couldn't be executed (or |
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> something similar - I forgot to write it down). But since I only hosed |
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> /boot and then reinstalled grub and kernel, I'm not sure why I'm not in |
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> business yet. |
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What's the 'ls -al' of your /boot partition look like? Does it have the |
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following link? |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Dec 8 2005 boot -> . |
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Just wondering? |
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-Hani |
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-- |
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"If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will |
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become a falsehood, and you a fanatic." |
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