Hello. Our mailserver will no longer boot.
In the weekend, I think it was, it was off when I tried to access it. (it had not been turned off by a human here) When I tried to boot it, I could no longer access it across the LAN. I have this afternoon, shifted it and connected it to a monitor, and tried to boot it. The boot sequence fails, and, I get " cramfs: wrong magic FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature. Found signature1 0x0 signature2 0x0 sector= 1. request_module[nls_cp437]: Root fs not mounted Unable to load NLS charset cp437 request_module[nls_cp437]: Root fs not mounted Unable to load NLS charset cp437 request_module[nls_cp437]: Root fs not mounted Unable to load NLS charset cp437 request_module[nls_cp437]: Root fs not mounted Unable to load NLS charset cp437 Directory1: bad FAT Filesystem panic (dev 03:01) FAT error VFS: Mounted root (vfat filesystem) readonly Freeing unused kernel memory: 280k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel " (boot sequence stops here) Does this mean that the FAT is stuffed? Can the system and the data be recovered? The system had to be booted via a FDD, each time the system needed booting. The system is Debian 4. I have Debian Woody (don't know what version number that is) and Debian 5 and Debian 6 on CD (CD1 of each; 7CD set for "Woody"), but do not know whether I can do anything with them. The optical drive on the computer, is a CD drive; it is an HP Vectra server, at least 10 years old. Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111101191307.trsrhwcngkk8o...@webmail.busby.net
