[lug] Help!

[Trent Jarvi]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:57:07PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 
> Terry> I just upgraded using the 2002-03-01 KRUD disk. The first
> Terry> problem was that several packages caused errors during the
> Terry> install; by deselecting the packages that caused errors I was
> Terry> finally able to complete an installation.  (I can send the
> Terry> install dump from the error if needed.)
> 
> what kind of errors? I would love to see the dump... ;) 
> 
> Terry> Now the big problem: I cannot boot into Linux! I get the error
> Terry> Kernel panic: no init found
> 
> Terry> How can I get my Linux back?
> 
> so it's getting to the point where it can load the kernel, but can't
> run /sbin/init after the kernel is done booting. 
> 
> Try booting with: 
> 
> linux init=/bin/bash 
> 
> and see if that works. Looks like your init package is messed up or
> the partition with the init package on it. 
> 
> Terry> Thanks, Terry Branaman
> 
You may be able to pass init=/bin/sh to the kernel.  If lilo is used it
would look something like:

lilo: <tab> to see kernels
linux linux-old linux-testing (kernels)
lilo: linux init=/bin/sh


I suspect you upgraded init but not one of the libs it links to or 
reverse:

ldd /sbin/init
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40023000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

If thats the case you will need to find a rescue disk, mount the hd and start
manually installing rpms until its bootable...

ldd /bin/sh  
        libtermcap.so.2 => /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0x40023000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40027000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4002b000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)


sash is a static shell that will let you boot (init=/bin/sash) but its
not usually installed.  You would have to mount the partition and copy
the file over.

Tom's rescue disk can be handy for situations like this.

        http://www.toms.net/rb/

-- 
Trent Jarvi
trentjarvi at yahoo.com