Re: Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:14:53PM +0200, Ulla Russell wrote: > Does anyone have any tips that might help me recover my system. I have > been pleased with debian. Reinstalling would be a useful experience but > I would like to be able to get things running without reinstalling. I think it's fairly

Re: Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-19 Thread Irvine Russell
Rogier Wolff kirjoitti 19.11.2002 kello 09:43: > It looks as if you crashed your system badly by playing with hdparm. You got that right! > That usually doesn't happen. Hope your right. Next time (if I'm brave enough to try again) I'll follow the instructions given in the articles that I was

Re: Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-18 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:14:53PM +0200, Ulla Russell wrote: > When I reboot now the booting progresses better but then stops > with the message: > >"kernel panic: No init found. try passsing init= option to kernel" > > I rebooted and tried typing the following at the lilo prompt: Hi, It

Re: Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Irvine Russell wrote: > Gary Turner kirjoitti 19.11.2002 kello 03:44: > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:14:53 +0200, Ulla Russell wrote: > > > > > > > > > >When I reboot now the booting progresses better but then stops > > >with the message: > > > > > > "kernel panic: No

Re: Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-18 Thread Irvine Russell
Gary Turner kirjoitti 19.11.2002 kello 03:44: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:14:53 +0200, Ulla Russell wrote: > > > > > >When I reboot now the booting progresses better but then stops > >with the message: > > > > "kernel panic: No init found. try passsing init= option to kernel" > > > >I rebooted and

Re: Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-18 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:14:53 +0200, Ulla Russell wrote: > >When I reboot now the booting progresses better but then stops >with the message: > > "kernel panic: No init found. try passsing init= option to kernel" > >I rebooted and tried typing the following at the lilo prompt: > > "linux init=

Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-18 Thread Ulla Russell
Hello Disaster has struck and I need some help. I was experimenting with hdparm for the first time and managed to freeze my system - I was in X at the time. I was unable to get back to the console - tried ^alt-backspace, and ^alt-f1... no joy. In the end I had to just switched off the machine.