Hi, On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Tim Wood wrote:
> I have an HP nx 8420 Core2 Duo T7400, 2GB RAM, SATA 100GB 7400rpm HDD, > ATI X1600 graphic card, bought mid February. > I had great difficulty persuading it to repartition the drive. I > installed the network edition of Edgy, bare system, then upgraded to Sid. if its debian, its "etch" > The partitions: > sda1 19.75GB NTFS, sda2 52MB FAT, <sda5 ext3 (now ext2) 15.45GB as /, > sda6 15.45GB ext3 /home, sda7 14.71GB Fat32, 16.9GB free, sda8 1.98GB > swap> sda4 6.66GB Fat - WinXP installation files. > When I bought it I did not appreciate that it had an embedded security > chip, which I now think the source of my problems. i can't believe this, nearly every buisness notebook has some tpm chip.. > On a reboot into WinXP a couple of days ago, it wanted to do some > updates, so I let it. One of them was for the access to the security > chip. I don't clearly remember now but I think I disabled the chip on > the original installation. The update seems to have turned it back on. > When I installed Linux I used Grub in the MBR and it worked well, > handing control to the NT loader, when booting WinXP. for me its the normal "windows" thing, after some generic updates windows always writes to the mbr, because .. > On rebooting back to Linux after the above update, I was met with Error > 13, from Grub, though initially I did not recognise it as coming from Grub. > I won't try to go through the saga of the following 2 days. I booted > Knoppix 5.1 and tried to chroot into sda5 but it came up with errors no > matter what I tried. the error would ne nice to know.. > I had amd64 kernels from 2.6.18/20/21/22 and the 2.6.22-1-686. I got to > the point were several would start to boot but all end up with the sequence: > ========================================================= > Begin: Running /scripts/init > Done: > Done: > Begin: Running /scrips/init-bottom > Done: > run-init /sbin/init No such file or directory > kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init > ========================================================== > An fsck came up with heaps of errors, cross linked files etc. > My /Home partition shows no errors. > The basic root partition appears intact with /var/lib/pkgstates and > dpkg/status. > > If I could find a way to get it running I could re-install the packages > (there's 1.5GB of debs in the archive). An alternative, if I could find > a way to extract a list of installed packages, would be to re-install > from scratch. > > The machine has the capability of booting off a variety of media (I put > the internal HD on the end), but will not boot off my USB stick or USB HD. > > Any advise would be welcome. > > Oh! I did have a backup from March, but somehow managed to "nuke" it:) if your /home is OK, then just run the debian setup again and format the / partition. And you want a backup of your /home. All user related data should be on your home, so it should no big deal to install the system around a secound time. -- Florian Reitmeir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
