OK. I booted from the rescue floppy and ran fsck on /dev/hda2. Judging by the messages that streamed by, there were a lot of problems that were fixed. However, when I went back to boot up the system, I got another mess of nasty looking messages:
INIT: No inittab file found Enter runlevel: <I tried everything from 0 to 3 and got the same result...> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel and it stopped right there. I booted back in with the rescue floppy, and checked out mu /etc directory, and it was full of all sorts of strange files, many of them being *.html files. What<s my best option here? Should I just start from scratch? Is it possible to re-install and re-configure the system with a good chance of keeping everything I have installed so far? John Kiff --- Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boot floppies get their kernel from the floppy, but still use the / > filesystem on the harddrive (which is where the problem is). > > Try booting with a rescue floppy and running fsck on the partition > containing the / filesystem. The rescue floppy is self contained and > will not access the hardrive unless you specifically mount a partition. > > - Bruce > > -- > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote: > > > Help!!! > > > > I got the following messages when I was booting up: > > > > "EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted:" > > > > followed a few lines later by: > > > > "kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on 03:02" > > > > after which everything stops. The same thing happened when I tried using my > > boot floppy. > > > > What should I do? My first reaction is to go back to square one and > > reinstall Debian (I'm > > currently using 2.2). However, before I take such drastic measures, is > > there a quicker and > simpler > > way of getting everything back up and running? > > > > John Kiff > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > > http://im.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > later, > > Bruce > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
