I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two weeks, it starts to load Lenny then dies with: Failed to execute /init can't open auto Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Call Trace before the panic includes handle_mm_fault and do_page_fault. I have tried kernel options noapic, nolapic, pci=noacpi with no difference. I tried resetting the BIOS.
memtest86+ passes (Dual Core AMD, 2GB memory, ASUS M3A78 PRO motherboard). grml dies in grml mode but works in failsafe mode. There I ran e2fsck -pcv on the root (including /boot) partition showing no problems. Similarly, sysrescuecd also dies but works in rescue vga=normal mode. I tried graphical rescue mode from the installer cd. It allowed me to launch a shell from my root partition. Strangely enough mount claims that the other partitions are mounted, but they are not until I su and manually mount them. Then I was able to run aptitude showing: iA linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 Version 2.6.26-13 The md5sum of /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 is 824cfba2eac12d0c09747c0bd3426e4e At this point, I don't know how to tell if this is a motherboard hardware problem or a disk file corruption. Does anyone have a suggestion for further diagnosis? Does the installer cd load the identical kernel that it installs or is it some different/reduced version? Is it possible to do a selective reinstallation of just the boot sensitive files from the installer cd rescue mode? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
