[vox-tech] linux boot failed

[Peter Jay Salzman]

When you boot the computer, you should pay close attention to the boot up
messages.  There should be something about the root filesystem being mounted
(or mounting failed).

If that doesn't prove useful, boot a rescue disk, mount the / partition by
hand, and see if /etc/inittab exists.

Also, have you Googled?

Pete



On Thu 24 Aug 06, 10:24 AM, Hai Yi <yihai2004 at gmail.com> said:
> Thanks, Peter:
> 
> When I typed "1", it says:
> 
> INIT: no more process left in this runlevel
> 
> The system is still respondent when I hit the keyboard but just they
> are just complaint about my random hitting, which doesn't help. :-)
> 
> Hai
> 
> 
> On 8/24/06, Peter Jay Salzman <p at dirac.org> wrote:
> >On Wed 23 Aug 06,  8:58 PM, Hai Yi <yihai2004 at gmail.com> said:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> My debian Linux had been running fine until one day when I restarted
> >> the computer, it failed to boot. The error message is as follows:
> >>
> >> ....
> >> INIT: version 2.86 booting
> >> INIT: No inittab file found
> >>
> >> Enter runlevel:
> >>
> >> I didnt know what I should enter and stuck at this stage.
> >>
> >> Can anyone help so I dont re-install the whole thing? :-)
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot,
> >> Hai
> >
> >Hello, Hai.
> >
> >Try entering "1".   What happens?
> >
> >When the boot messages scroll, do you see any messages saying that / is
> >being mounted?
> >
> >pete
> >
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-- 
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a
digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the
top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.  To think otherwise is to
demean the Buddha, which is to demean oneself.   -- Robert M. Pirsig

Peter Jay Salzman, email: p at dirac.org web: http://www.dirac.org/p    
PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E  70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D