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  • Subject: Re: [BL] e2fsck, finally, now "init not found"
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 07:31:30 +1300

James Miller wrote:
>
> There were tons of errors, which I told it to just go ahead
> and fix. The final result was that the /root dir is (and
> possibly some others are) missing. Alot of fragments were
> saved to /lost+found by e2fsck and I suppose I might find
> some of the missing items by rooting around there. When I
> try to boot the system, I get a kernel panic

Very bad.

> and a message to the effect "init not found."

I doubt whether replacing /sbin/init will fix it. I suspect
the kernel is not finding init because the filesystem is stuffed.

> My basic question with regard to this is: is it worth trying
> to rescue this instalation,

Probably not.

> or should I just focus on saving data and reinstalling?

The most important things to save are the configuration files
in /etc and /root (and /home/whatever, if you configured a user
account). The eznet configuration file is in /var/eznet.
The icewm configuration files are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icewm.

Cheers,
Steven




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