[Techtalk] No INIT found yet can boot from floppy
Jeannette
jcv at hise.org
Wed Jul 10 08:55:45 EST 2002
Here is just a thought based on an experience I had once:
When you try to boot without the floppy, do you notice any "unresolved
symbol" messages on the screen before the "no init found" ? I got a
problem report from a customer once, where they ran into this. It turned
out that they were using the i386 version of the driver diskette, instead
of the i686 version (which was appropriate for their system). Installs
always went fine, but they could never reboot (symbol tables didn't
match), and got the same error message you reported.
Jeannette
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, BUNTER MATTHEW wrote:
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> All,
>
> Continuing to have no luck with my init problem. Sorry about the length b=
ut I though that I'd give all the info I can so
> below are the outputs of df -k, fstab, /etc/lilo.conf and the floppy driv=
e files. Can someone give me any pointers please??
>
> LABEL=3D/ / ext3 defaults =
1 1
> LABEL=3D/boot /boot ext3 defaults =
1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=3D5,mode=3D62=
0 0 0
> LABEL=3D/home /home ext3 defaults =
1 2
> none /proc proc defaults 0=
0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0=
0
> LABEL=3D/spare /spare ext3 defaults =
1 2
> LABEL=3D/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults =
1 2
> LABEL=3D/usr /usr ext3 defaults =
1 2
> LABEL=3D/var /var ext3 defaults =
1 2
> /dev/hda10 swap swap defaults 0=
0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudz=
u,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudz=
u 0 0
>
> prompt
> timeout=3D50
> default=3DWindows 2000
> boot=3D/dev/hda
> map=3D/boot/map
> install=3D/boot/boot.b
> message=3D/boot/message
> lba32
>
> image=3D/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
> label=3DRed Hat
> initrd=3D/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
> read-only
> root=3D/dev/hda6
>
> other=3D/dev/hda1
> optional
> label=3DWindows 2000
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6 758936 83284 637100 12% /
> /dev/hda2 21958 2691 18133 13% /boot
> /dev/hda9 395280 9903 364967 3% /home
> none 63320 0 63320 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda5 1078920 32828 991284 4% /spare
> /dev/hda7 758936 17036 703348 3% /tmp
> /dev/hda3 1763560 1212664 461312 73% /usr
> /dev/hda8 497829 39525 432602 9% /var
> /dev/fd0 1423 1115 308 79% /mnt/floppy
> /dev/hda1 6134248 3725044 2409204 61% /windows
>
> $ cd /mnt/floppy;ls -al
> total 1126
> drwxrwxr-x 2 verbero verbero 7168 Jan 1 1970 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 1 19:36 ..
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 verbero verbero 203 Jul 1 18:44 boot.msg
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 verbero verbero 331567 Jul 1 18:44 initrd.img
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 verbero verbero 6192 Jul 1 18:43 ldlinux.sys
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 verbero verbero 121 Jul 1 18:44 syslinux.cfg
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 verbero verbero 802068 Sep 6 2001 vmlinuz
>
> Just something that also puzzled me. I have the Linux partitions starting=
under the 1024 cylinder. I have never choosen to
> have lba32 support before. When I commented it out of /etc/lilo.conf it o=
nly got as far as
>
> lil-
>
> and then hung.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:18:51 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] No INIT found yet can boot from floppy
>
> Heya --
>
> Quoth Hamster (Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 02:50:25PM +0200):
> > A very wild guess on my part is thinking the solution might lie somewhe=
re in adding an init=3D line to lilo. But that really
> is a wild guess and the answer could just as easily be rotating the lapto=
p to face north.
>
> That sounds like a good idea to me. I would suggest
>
> init=3D/bin/bash
>
> or /usr/local/bin/bash or wherever your bash is. See if that will boot
> it. If it does, take a look at /etc/fstab and make sure your entries in
> there are correct for how you've partitioned your disk, etc. Compare it
> against the fstab on your floppy (mount the floppy as /floppy or
> something and take a look there). If they're different, try making the
> appropriate corrections to the non-working version on your hard drive.
>
> If passing init as above to the kernel doesn't work, try booting
> from floppy and looking at the fstab. (Also, the above assumes you have
> bash on your system. If you don't, that won't work, replace it with
> whatever shell you're using. Bash is the default, so the above is
> probably okay unless you've tweaked your system a lot.)
>
> Cheers,
> Raven
>
> "rcalder-Ran-Elf-Fem-Cha died in The Dungeons of Doom on level 3.
> Killed by a fox, while helpless."
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