Hi , I am running debian unstable on Acer laptop. Things were working fine until yesterday morning, when the laptop refused to boot.
The errors i am getting are strange: - If i run in the regular boot level, the system boots, but for some reason does not mount the /usr or /home(both reiserfs). Mount says that it does not know type reiserfs. It also failed to load ide_* modules. Similarly all the devices fail to initialise. After a while i get a shell with only /(ext3) as mounted. Every 5 minutes i get the message "INIT: Id "SV" respawning too fast, disabled for 5 minutes. I can,t check the logs because my /var is on /home. - When i try to boot into init=1 , i get a Kernel Panic which says: "/usr/lib/yaird/exec/run_init:1: No such file. Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!" - Windows seems to work fine.(dual boot) Similarly no run level seems to work. I tried googling a bit and the possible reasons were: - Harddisk failure : tested all partitions except / and found no bad blocks. I tried using badblocks <partition mame>. Is this test good enough? How do i test the root partition for badblocks? - RAM : Checked with memtest. Looks good - Rootkit: Read somewhere that someone has installed a rootkit on my machine. I can't check this, but is there such a possibility. The only way if anyone can install it is via an irc, but i feel that it is secure. How can i check this, since i cant run ant rootkit detection programs. - Corrupt files in /boot like system.map etc.. I am not sure how to test it. Any pointers will be helpful. Also, is this likely to be a hardware failure or a linux corruption? -Suman ----------------------------------------------- Next Meeting as on our Website: http://ilughyd.org.in ----------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilughyd/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
