Hi, I have been tearing my hair out over this one...I am trying to test a bare metal recovery, but so far have been unable to get the bacula rescue CDROM to boot. I am able to generate the CDROM, and it gets past the isolinux selection menu, but fails after initial kernel load...
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 475k Failed to execute /init Kernel panic - not syncing: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. I am using Rehat EL5 on a VMWare virtual machine (note that it is a different VM I am trying to restore to). I am trying to generate the rescue CD from the scripts in /etc/bacula/rescue. I have also tried commenting out the cpio version that makes the initrd without success either. I have done as much googling and RTFMming as I think I can...anyone have any other thoughts? Cheers Beorn Other details as follows : # uname -r 2.6.18-92.el5 # rpm -qa | grep bacula bacula-client-2.4.4-1.el5.pp bacula-2.4.4-1.el5.pp # cat /etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom/cdtree/boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg default linux prompt 1 display boot.msg timeout 300 F1 boot.msg F2 options.msg F3 general.msg F4 kernel.msg label linux kernel vmlinuz append ramdisk_size=126279680 initrd=initrd.img label memtest86 kernel memtest append - And finally, output from the build process # pwd /etc/bacula/rescue # make (cd linux/cdrom; make all) make[1]: Entering directory `/etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom' ./makekernel Updating modules in root RAM disk Coping /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.el5 to /etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom/cdtree/boot/isolinux/vmlinuz ./makebinaries Building root /sbin. Some Could not find messages are normal ... ==== Could not find ash on your system ==== ==== Could not find ata-id on your system ==== ==== Could not find checkproc on your system ==== ==== Could not find dhcpd on your system ==== ==== Could not find fsck.jfs on your system ==== ==== Could not find hotplug on your system ==== ==== Could not find hwup on your system ==== ==== Could not find lilo on your system ==== ==== Could not find ltrace on your system ==== ==== Could not find mkfs.jfs on your system ==== ==== Could not find mkreiserfs on your system ==== ==== Could not find mt on your system ==== ==== Could not find path_id on your system ==== ==== Could not find raidstart on your system ==== ==== Could not find reiserfsck on your system ==== ==== Could not find scsi_info on your system ==== ==== Could not find strace on your system ==== ==== Could not find udev on your system ==== ==== Could not find udevstart on your system ==== ==== Could not find vol_id on your system ==== Building root shared libaries ... Building /etc ... ===================================================== ==== ==== ==== Warning your /etc/ssh directory was copied. ==== ==== Keep this directory and the CDROM secure. ==== ==== ==== ===================================================== make[2]: Entering directory `/etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom/bacula' ./getdiskinfo Begin collecting system info ... df: `/etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom/mnt': No such file or directory Gathering LVM information /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found No volume groups found /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found No volume groups found Done collecting info. Begin creating scripts ... Done making partitioning scripts Begin making formatting script(s) ... Begin making LVM formatting script(s) ... Done building scripts. ./make_rescue_disk ./copy_to_roottree make[2]: Leaving directory `/etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom/bacula' ./makeinitrd Creating the Initial RAM disk image.... Initial RAM disk contents will be 123320 KB 123320+0 records in 123320+0 records out 126279680 bytes (126 MB) copied, 0.572853 seconds, 220 MB/s Building initial RAM disk done Compressing the RAM disk image.... Ramdisk size is 126279680 Making isolinux.cfg Initial RAM disk initrd.img is built. rm -f bootcd.iso mkisofs -A "Bacula Rescue Disk" -V "Bacula Rescue Disk" \ -J -R -T -o bootcd.iso \ -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table cdtree INFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings. Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem, use -input-charset to override. Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation 27.56% done, estimate finish Wed Apr 22 14:11:21 2009 55.04% done, estimate finish Wed Apr 22 14:11:21 2009 82.60% done, estimate finish Wed Apr 22 14:11:21 2009 Total translation table size: 5149 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 1821 Total directory bytes: 4096 Path table size(bytes): 38 Max brk space used 0 18169 extents written (35 MB) make[1]: Leaving directory `/etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users