Hi to all…I have a problem when booting my pc.I uninstaled bootchart and since then kernel goes to panic…saying /sbin/boot:no such file or directory…
I followed the Repair Installed System from my dvd but it fails at the end and it just reboots the system…Is there any way to baypass this problem without reinstalling the OS??/
Thanks
Opensuse 11.2
I’d say the bootchart left behind something in initrc file. It must connect into the boot process somewhere and that is the logical place. I’d suspect that what ever file it changed to connect has a backup with the original file in it. Since the changes where probably done the fist time you ran bootchart and not when you installed it uninstalling just removed the program files not the changed script. You will need to boot from a cd and mount root to find and edit or replace from backup the file that bootchart uses to connect into the system.
And which file should I change?
no clue I don’t use bootchart and do not know how it shoehorns into the boot process. my guess is that it changes the initrd file in /boot but that is only a guess. If it changes it there should be a backup of the original.
Nothing to do and nothing found searching google…
Fresh install :’(:’(:’(
Hi
When installing bootchart and if it’s removed you need to rebuild
initrd with the mkinitrd command.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default
up 17 days 4:49, 7 users, load average: 0.12, 0.11, 0.06
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.18
I just mount root partition from the dvd and give mkinitrd??
Nope, that’s not the way. See if it boots into runlevel 1. Put “init 1” on the options line at boot. Enter root password when asked for and run ‘mkinitrd’.
There are posts in the forum on creating a new initrd through booting from the install media.
No fortune,I cant even boot to level 1…
It gives me /bin/run-init: /sbin/bootchartd:no such file or directory…and it goes to panic…:’(
Hi
If you press the esc key at the grub menu and drop to the CLI, you can
edit that out and boot normally?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default
up 17 days 6:51, 2 users, load average: 0.40, 0.39, 0.37
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.53
tekos wrote:
> I uninstaled bootchart
> and since then kernel goes to panic… . .Is there any way to baypass this
> problem without reinstalling the OS??/
answer my questions and then maybe i can answer your question:
how did you uninstall boot chart?
exactly how did you do it?
describe what you did and how you did it.
oh, and one more: why did you uninstall it (like, were you making more
space because the machine crashed with a disk full error)?
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palladium
Anytime and in any mode I try to boot it gives me the same error…
Pressing Esc and editing gives the same thing…
I uninstalled it via Yast and it didn’t give me any warning…
And yes I was trying to make same space …
tekos wrote:
> I uninstalled it via Yast and it didn’t give me any warning…
ok, reinstall it with YaST and see if your kernel panic goes away…
is bootchart in one of the openSUSE repos?
> And yes I was trying to make same space …
did you have have a disk full error? (such can and often does damage
several system files)
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palladium
The problem is that I cant access yast…During boot it stops…
I think I made it…I boot in rescue mode and with mkinit everything came back…
Thanks to all for the help…