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    booting after /sbin/init whacked?

    I tried to force a downgrade in an ill-advised matter, and not the laptop cannot boot kubuntu.

    On a regular boot, I get
    /bin/sh: splash: No such file or directory
    [ 27.125989] Kernel panic -not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

    I get the same result from the recovery option in grub.

    I've found that by removing "splash" from the lines in grub, I can boot into single-user and sh, with a warning that "Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init"

    I'm in this situation from trying to force-install packages from 8.04 over 8.10 (particularly, kde and adept) [the newer versions were painful and dumbed down]

    Anyway, the first issue is getting back up.

    I've tried remounting / to get it rw, and then dpkg --configure -a, but on the first package (initramfs-tools), when it tries to create the new image, it announces that

    /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 14: getopt: command not found.

    The obvious solution is to simply reinstall, but the cd drive doesn't work any more and this laptop cannot boot from usb.

    I've made a usb stick from create-usb, but I haven't succeeded in booting from it. If I put it in before powering up, grub sees it as hda(1,0). It seems to me that I should just be able to tell it the partition, set initrd and initrd to the files in /casper, but it seems to hang after a half a screen of messages while configuring the usb stick.

    hawk, stumped
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    Re: booting after /sbin/init whacked?

    I'm not going to tell you what to do with your system, but if this box were mine, I'd be looking for a "new" used CD drive. On the other hand, you could check into network install procedures.

    Without the ability to initiate a working OS, that thing's a brick.
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      Re: booting after /sbin/init whacked?

      Ouch! Between a rock and a hard place... No CD, no USB to start from. The other candidates are floppy or hard disk, i.e. you could try and find a bootable floppe that would give you USB support and to boot off your usb stick or you take out your hard drive, stick it onto another computer _somehow_ and install onto that hard drive using another CD.
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        Re: booting after /sbin/init whacked?

        It's not completely dead in the water--I can still boot single user, use usb after that, and I can also boot darkside XP. I assume that I also can bring the network up in single user once I look up instructions for the debian ifconfig.

        hawk
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          Re: booting after /sbin/init whacked?

          Good news! I don't know the"single user" concept - what does it stand for? Do you have a full shell with cp, mount, nano and all? As root? If so you have a perfect install environment using you custom made usb stick

          How is your partitioning, anything important on /home to save or does it have its own partition?
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            Re: booting after /sbin/init whacked?

            Kubuntu hides it behind its eye-candy bar, but Unix and its workalikes (e.g., linux) come up in a single user mode (runlevel 1?) which checks the system and then initiates multiuser (literally announcing, "going multiuser"). I think multiuser is runlevel 5 (maybe not, I'm getting N 2 on kubuntu box).

            Anyway, at this point, it would really seem to be a matter of force-installing, or possibly even bursting, the appropriate packages. I'm just not sure what the appropriate packages are . . .
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              Re: booting after /sbin/init whacked?

              *buntu does use runlevel 2, normally.

              Great, if you can boot to single user mode. http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-ub...rom-drive.html seems to indicate that a network install is possible. I haven't tried it, but maybe ...
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                Re: booting after /sbin/init whacked?

                Originally posted by dochawk
                single user mode (runlevel
                Doh! I didn't think

                And thanks for the netinstall link jglen490.
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                  Solved (or irrelevant) booting after /sbin/init whacked?

                  I'm finally past this.

                  I was unable to use the instructions for booting from an iso image, as I never had a /dev/loop0 created on boot, which is apparently needed.

                  It turns out that even though it can't boot from a cd, it can boot from a dvd.

                  odd (and a lot of wasted time not trying that!)

                  thanks to all

                  hawk
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