While I was using my computer a few days ago, the terminal stopped working properly, so I tried to reboot, and when it started up again it wouldn't boot and said "no init found. try passing init=bootarg"
This has happened twice before, so I really need to figure out what keeps happening, otherwise I can't continue to use linux. i reinstalled both times before. i think that this is caused by a process that prevents me from using the hard drive, because when I try to check the disk in the terminal or in gparted, it says Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sda1. Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?
Also, in the disk utility, in the lower right corner of the filesystem it has a spinning "loading wheel".(i'm not sure if that means anything)
I am using ubuntu 10.10, but am not sure what kernel I am using, but i tried a few different kernel options(there's three of them at start up). safe mode does not work either.
I've been dual booting 10.10 with Windows7 for about a month. Today is the first time I've encountered a serious problem.
This morning, nothing functioned properly after trying to open several programs. The computer seemed to be "frozen", although the mouse was working fine.
I decided to reboot, but then encountered an even bigger problem.
It failed to boot and got this message: no init found. try passing init= bootarg
The problem now is that it requires a Live CD session and I keep getting this: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)
In case it matters, I didn't install 10.10 from an ISO, I just upgraded from 10.04.
Ubuntu 9.10 will not boot! System froze this morning, I restarted and it is now failing to boot. Starts loading grub and I get this message:
mount: mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/04aa3697-7bc0-45b5-b86a-77a1e6534bd5 on /root failed: invalid argument mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory mount: mounting /dev on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
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I booted with 9.04 LiveCD discovered the drive could not be mounted-ran fsck -ln and it told me the drive has no valid partition table. I have had intermittent problems mounting flash drives before this, so I'm kind of worried it might be a hardware issue.Also have files on that drive I would rather not lose, so reinstalling is hopefully a last resort.
Recently I tried installing Ubuntu via CD, I burned the Image like the website said, It booted then it gave a black screen saying init was not found or something in that nature. I tried a few more times with no luck. I am making another CD to see if it works, hopefully it will,. Its a relatively old HDD. It has Win 98 on it. 9.18 GB space.Quantum Fireball lct 10 3.5" series.
At work we use autofs4, and we also take advangate of the -DOSNMAE=blah and -DOSREL=blah for our automount maps. We're moving some systems to autofs5 and I can't for the life of me figure out how to pass these options properly. There's no 'localoptions' in the init script anymore as there was for autofs4. I've tried adding the flags to the OPTIONS variable in /etc/default/autofs. That adds them to the global autofs process but then nothing in the automounter mounts.
Currently I run into a rather confusing case. I met bellow mount errors when I was about to enter the rescue mode on SLES11:
Code: Loading Rescue System (1/2) (19784 kB) - 100% Loading Rescue System (2/2) (10268 kB) - 100% Reading Driver Update...
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Then I tried to extract the rescue image and to see what's wrong in the scrip, but it turn out that there is no boot script under /etc/init.d directory, either a similar one that may as it.
where is the script or which is the script does the mount things in rescue image?
PLUS, I can see /etc/init.d/boot script in SLES10 rescue image.
On starting Ubuntu from the grub, I get the following message,
Code: No init found
Busybox v1.15.3(ubuntu 1.1.15 3-ubuntu5) built in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of commands (initramfs)_ I use a dualboot system, with Ubuntu 10.10, and Windows 7.
I have written an init script and placed it in /etc/init.d/ directory.What I would like to know is, will the script run automatically or we need to install the script using "install_initd" command.If I have to invoke this command manullay, what will be the best place to do this ? Can I add this to "/etc/init.d/rcS" file
openSUSE 10.3 on Itronix IX260+ Stuck on command line, init 3, and all attempts at graphic init 5 fail. Get these messages:(EE) No devices detected; Fatal screen error: no screens found; AIGLX disabled Primary Device is PCI 01:00:0kernel:device-mapper:multipath round-robin:version 1.0.0 loaderkernel:device-mapper:table:253:0:multipath: error getting device kernel:device-mapper:ioctl: error adding target to tableProblem would seem to be with the device-mapper, but have no idea how to fix it.
I've been using ubuntu for around 4 months now and have never had a problem until recently. My OS became unresponsive all of a sudden and all I could do was force shutdown my laptop by holding the power button. When I turned it back on, I was given the "No init found. Try passing init= bootarg" error. I have looked around online and most solutions point towards a live cd, which I don't have.
I have a Dell Mini 12 running what I think is Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Remix. It won't boot all of a sudden, saying 'No init found'. I've been through [URL].. which is VERY close to my problem but I cannot get Disk Utility to work when running off my Live USB. Asking it to check the hard drive results in it telling me the filesystem is 'not clean'.
I installed 10.04 on daughter's laptop. It's been working perfectly but suddenly it's refusing to boot. Sadly, she's now half way around the world so I can't fiddle around to get it working. She's posted me a photo of the screen.
Here's what seems to be the important part: 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 /sbin/init. No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
First I installed ubuntu on a separate hard drive and ran that as primary hard drive. Then I opened terminal and entered: sudo fdisk -l The errored hard drive was sdb1. I then entered: sudo fsck /dev/sdb1 There were questions I answered yes to then, after swapping drives, I booted normally. Everything was normal except I have to choose a different version of ubuntu at startup. I haven't had any problems so far but this was just an hour ago.
This is kinda strange, i just installed dhcp3-server in ubuntu 11.04 , but when I try to find the starting script in /etc/init.d/dchp3-server start, it states
bash: /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server: No such file or directory
I have installed the dhcp3-server,howcome there is no script for executing dhcp server?
I was reading in one of my redhat books that this command would make linux rered the inittab file but whin I try it I get Bash: init: command not found.
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 dirctory
Before i set up the raid, but with this exact partitioning, the system booted perfectly. When i installed mdadm and created the raid1 mirroring on sda6 and sdb1, the init got screwed up, and all i get is a shell on initramfs, from where i can inspect that sda is binded on md, and cat /proc/mdstat tells me that i have an inactive sda[4].I can't mount the root partition (sda2), because it's busy (i suspect dmraid to lock it), which is, i guess, why init cannot be found.
I wonder if my error is to setup a raid array using a logical partition contained in an extended partition (but i hardly see why it would not work - but the sda bind and the sda[4] in mdstat seems to tell me that it does not), or it's just the initrd that is improperly configured. The other things that bothers me, is that changing the partition type of the raid partitions (fd to 0 - Empty), to disable raid autodetection, resulted in the same behavior on boot. Which might lead me again to think about configuration file problem instead of improper setup.The live cd doesn't not seem to recognize raid, so i can't inspect problems any further, but i could inspect system configuration, but i don't really know where to start.
I installed ubuntu on my dual boot Debian/Lenny and windows 7 toshiba laptop. Now when I try to boot Lenny i get the following error messages:
kinit : name_to_dev_t(/dev/sda6)=dev(8,6) kinit : trying to resume from /dev/sda6 kinit : No resume image doing normal boot ....
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I can see the whole filesystem is there. The problem may have something to do with the boot loader. I was originally using Grub 1.5 when I just had Lenny and Windows 7, but when I installed ubuntu it has installed GRUB 2. When I use the debian install cd to go into rescue mode, all the init scripts are still where they should be. Another thing that happened when I partioned of a section for ubuntu all the dev numbers went up one. In the debian /boot/grub/menu.lst windows 7 was booting under (hd0,1) now it boots under (hd0,2) debian used to boot from (hd0,7) with root=/dev/sda8 but now it is under (hd0,8) root=/dev/sda9 in the GRUB2 menu.lst. Is there anyway to get my Debian back up and running? After 6 months of studying it at uni I am finally learning my way around and want it back.
I just added an 80GB Maxtor 6Y080P0 HDD to my computer and when I'm booting into linux (Slackware 13.1) I get: ~ NTFS volume version 3.1. VFS: Mounted root (NTFS filesystem) read-only on device 8:1. devtmpfs: error mounting -2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 636k freed Write protecting the kernel text: 9564k Write protecting the read only data: 2448k Warning: unable to open initial console. Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.33.4-smp #2 Call trace: ~ The HDD I'm booting from is a 20GB Maxtor and is the 3rd slave. The new 80GB one is the 3rd master.
When trying to install Debian 6.02 from a boot cd, the boot halts with the error message Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. In looking for a solution I see a great deal about this problem occurring after messy upgrades and the like, but when when booting from a cd downloaded right from the debian website.
I'm running Slacware current. Ran the updates this morning, including kernel 2.6.33.2. I always get nervous about that since something often goes wrong. Sure enough -
trying to boot I get No kewrnel modules found for Linux 2.6.33.2-smp mount: mounting /dev/sda9 on /mnt failed: No such device ERROR: No /sbin/init found on rootdev ( or not mounted ) and failure to proceed with booting. I got an original warning about the initial ram disk being too big to fit and switched to using generic kernel, and yes I did run lilo afterwards and did add the initrd.gz line. I run Ubuntu on the same laptop and have to boot into that and work as chroot in my Slackware partition to try and fix things.
I just imaged my RHEL 4 system that was running on a Dell Poweredge 2950 server using Acronis software and I restored the image to a VmWare virtual machine.
Dell Poweredge 2950 - RAID 5 VmWare - using ESX 4.0 OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ES Update 5 x64 kernel - 2.6.9-55.0.9.ELsmp
I'm getting the following when I try to boot on the new virtual machine. I'm thinking it has to do with the fact that it's new hardware and it's having trouble either finding the right drivers or pointing to the correct place.
"No Volume Groups found Volume Group "Volgroup00" not found ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! (pid505) mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!" I was able to boot into Linux rescue mode using the boot CD. Then I typed: #chroot /mnt/sysimage
Here's all the info from the commands I typed: #ldd /bin/bash libtermcap.so.2 => /lib64/libtermcap.so.2 libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 libc.so.6 => /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 #uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-89.EL x86_64 #df -h ....
I've tried the following: 1. mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.6.9-55.0.9.EL.img 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL 2. modified the device.map to point to /dev/sda3 3. changed the SCSI controller in Vmware to use BusLogic instead of LSI Logic. (didn't work because I'm running 64 bit.. gave me an error message) 4. grub-install --recheck /dev/sda 5. tried booting to differerent OS versions (i.e. 2.6.9-55.0.6, etc.). I tried all of the versions listed in the boot menu. None of these worked.
I'm trying to boot into the Live CD (64bit version) and it dies with an error "nouveau .... 0x8DF6 Init table command not found: 0xA9". Get the same error after I install and try to boot into Debian, it starts booting but errors out later.
Running Intel 4770K on Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H with 8G ram, Nvidia graphics card and several SSDs ...
I'm currently trying to setup Slackware 13.7 on a server, using software RAID 1. I'm using the README_RAID.TXT document at the root of the Slackware disc as a reference. Anyway, here's what I have so far.
[root@raymonde:~] # fdisk -l /dev/sd{a,b} Disk /dev/sda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders, total 80293248 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
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I created an initrd image using mkinitrd -F, added an according stanza to /etc/lilo.conf and ran 'lilo' after that. Now I can boot on the vanilla huge kernel all right. But I can't seem to boot on the generic kernel. Whenever I try to do this, the boot process stops short on the following error message:
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mount: mounting /dev/md3 on /mnt failed: Device or resource busy ERROR: no /sbin/init found on rootdev
I updated ubuntu (10.10) today after not doing so in a while and there was an error after it had done most of the updates. However, foolishly, I payed little attention to this and i rebooted my computer for the rest of updates to take effect and received the error:Quote:No init found. Try passing init= bootargI received this error no matter which kernel I tried...After researching i downloaded and installed the iso onto USB stick.This however also failed because for some reason it did not know the location of vmlinuz and initrd.lz.However, when i inserted the code so it would know the location of these files it loads somewhat but eventually comes up with the same "init" error.
