[vox-tech] missing init; system unbootable

[Ryan]

On Friday 07 June 2002 08:20 am, Shawn P. Neugebauer wrote:
> On Friday 07 June 2002 01:38 am, you wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:36:47AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > word up, ryan.  how did you manage this one?    :-)
> > >
> > > try looking at initrd.
> >
> > I looked, and it's where lilo says it should be.
> >
> > I'm thinking that the mount error is the real problem, anyonw know wh=
at
> > it means?
>
> lemme guess...you upgraded your kernel?

No.

> i did a quick web search.  here are a few ideas:
> * are you sure you ran "lilo" to write-out any changes in /etc/lilo.con=
f?
>   (i've forgotten this more than once, myself)
> * it seems like something changed on your system.  can you give us
>   a little more info on what preceded this event?
> * i second peter's suggestion to look at initrd.  my guess is that you
>   need to re-run mkinitrd, and you may need to force particular modules
>   to load in a particular order.

reruning lilo and modifing /etc/fstab have fixed the problem.