On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 05:17:16PM +0100, Bob wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [snipped...] > > >you're being dropped into busybox, which is a limited shell, but you > >CAN do some things. can you mount any of your disks from there? if so, > >turn on boot logging: add or change /etc/default/bootlogd to say > >BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes. Then you can read /var/log/boot after your next > >boot and most of the messages will be there. Also, ctrl-s supposedly > >will pause/un-pause the scrolling of boot messages, though I've not > >done it. hopefully that will get you some more info. > > I was just playing on that box and that the init command was there, > so did an "init 6" and I think I've found my problem: > > ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
most likely you don't have the right modules loaded. can you insmod them from the busybox shell and then try init 6 (also, I think you only need init 2 in debian, but you can check that by looking at /etc/rc2.d). Of course, reading back over this, my suggestion assumes you've got modules on a readable disk and I bet you don't... you could boot from a live-cd (knoppix) and chroot into your system and rebuild the initrd to include the proper modules in the initrd. I think its dpkg-reconfigure yaird or initrd-yaird. Others will know this. A
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