Alan Greenberger wrote: > > Thank you for your suggestion. I just tried booting with init=/bin/sh > and unfortunately it got Kernel panic in the same way. > > The box was not upgraded from the Lenny install of half a year ago. It > was just shut down for two weeks. > > How would I skip initrd?
then forget this suggestion and check the bios if your hard drives are still recognized it's not normal that it breaks without a reason after you just shut down. There is always a rational reason! What is interesting is the line with can't open auto can you confirm that you are using grub and describe the kernel command and initrd lines regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org