Ubuntu :: 10.10: System Fails To Boot?

Mar 14, 2011

This morning my system has a problem which is beyond my ability to understand: Firstly, the system does not boot automatically, after a fixed delay, from the grub menu. I have to press 'enter' against a chosen boot option. Secondly boot then fails. A lot of messages flash past the screen (which appear to be a trace) and end showing the following (partial example):

Code:
Killed
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init.
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.

at this stage I can move around the directory structure using 'cd', but no other commands seem to work.I tried the recovery boot option - same result. Is this a symptom that my boot drive has failed? No, that can't be true, or I would not be able to see the grub menu, would I? I can't find a similar situation after a Google search; what recovery procedure I should use? Correction: I must have had brain fade: I see there is quite a long thread on this very topic on the forum. I'm going to examine that first before I ask for more help.

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2) I tested the power cord from the power supply that runs to my HD and it is working just fine.
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4) I have also tried plugging it into the other SATA ports on my motherboard.
5) I tried flashing the mobo BIOS. The flash worked just fine (or at least it appeared so), but the HD is still not being found on the system boot scan.

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Call trace:
get_empty_filp
panic

[code].....

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G41M-S3
Intel G41 + ICH7 chipsets
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[code]......

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Some errors that appear on 32-core nodes:

ib_query_port failed (-16) for mlx4_0
ib_query_port failed (-16) for mlx4_0
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Code:
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