Re: [Hampshire] Anyone know the Debian boot sequence?

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Author: Vic
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Anyone know the Debian boot sequence?

> Do you have any other initrd files to try and boot from? do they
> all suffer the same fate?


I've got a 2.4 kernel. It fails in pretty much the same way,

> If you boot the file system with a live disk is it good? could you
> try a chroot to rebuild the initrd?


Already tried that. I can't do too much on the broken machine because I
have to overlay /lib to get bash running from the liveCD :-(

>> It never gets to /sbin/init on the main filesystem (which is where it's
>> heading).
>
> That doesn't sound like fun...


Nope. Not really...

Vic.