This is the 8089b mini netbook, by the way.. On Dec 25, 3:29 pm, dsys <purebluea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > It was only two days ago that I received this Lemote netbook, getting > it mainly for text editing, and to learn about MIPS and the debian os. > But you see I am still very much a novice in the domain and am liable > to destroy the computer with a wrong keypress.. > The problem I am having now is that the computer will not completely > boot up, displaying an error message, > "Kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init!" > I've looked online to see if others have had similar issues, but > cannot not find a case like mine that I can fully understand. There > are > probably many possible causes, and hopefully solutions as well. I am a > complete naive in this realm, but I am here to learn. I received this > error message after having to reboot the computer before because the > screen went all wacky displaying itself in a lower-than-usual > resolution and in three copies in a droste effect fashion.. This > happened after I sought to upgrade the computer using the sudo apt-get > upgrade command. That was obviously not a wise choice because the > computer was working just fine before, and there was really no need to > upgrade.. While the computer was upgrading there were a few packages > that were being installed that could not be authenticated, but I > installed anyway because after a quick glance at the list of packages > I saw some of them which would come in handy later. Many of those > unauthenticated packages I knew nothing of yet thought they must be > important if they are to appear here... the packages were being > installed, and then the computer informs me that a config file (not > entirely sure, I really should have kept notes; it may have been > called "sources.list") needed to be rewritten or may it said that the > package source had an alternative.. so I went along with it. that was > that. Excuse my ignorance please, I expected to run into problems but > not ones so catastrophic. Now all I can do to communicate with the > Lemote is by stepping into PMON and invoking commands from there... > When I enter PMON there is some text above the prompt which says "BEV > in SR set to ZERO" .. I am not sure if that is normal or what.. > I hope someone can help me out and show me how to fix this problem as > I am not sure what powerful forces I am mingling with here... > Meanwhile I am looking around on on linux-loongson community forums > and wiki.
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