[ale] init problem after dist-upgrade

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 23:00 -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote: 
> I tried capturing data but not much luck. it keeps saying could not load
> /root

Bingo!  I'm presuming (please correct me) that it really said either
unable to "find" the root file system or unable to "mount" the root file
system or something to that effect?  Exact wording is important.  I know
you can't copy and paste from the dead machine but the exact literal
error message is important, something right down to capitalization.

> Not sure doing dist-upgrade was a crime.

It's not.  I do it all the time on both Fedora and on Ubuntu.

> Any idea how to redirect the error messages to a sep file on the local box
> or remote box ?

Not at that level, no.

Have you run an actual recovery using the recovery disk?

> how to pass the arguments to init, so i can go ahead and boot ?

You can't.  The problem is not "init".  The problem is your rootfs.  It
can't mount the rootfs so, when it goes to run init, it can't find init,
which is on the rootfs.

> -Narahari
> 
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Don't know about ubuntu but fedora has a install method that exports
> > the screen to a remote system. From that you can do screen captures.
> >
> > If you can't do that then you have to use a serial port connection and
> > a terminal tool. No gui capability on that setup.
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
> > <savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is there a way to capture the err messages?
> > >
> > > On Jan 30, 2011 5:37 PM, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 15:55 -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> > >> I have 3 entries 35.25, 35.24, 35....
> > >
> > > I've seen this before and, invariably, it's the last error you see
> > > because something else has failed earlier on and it was unable to mount
> > > the root file system.  That's a failure at the very last stage of the
> > > initramfs.  Is that the FIRST error you see?  If not, what is the very
> > > first error?
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >> If I go to recovery mode can I specify the Init and if so how ?
> > >>
> > >> -Narahari
> > >>
> > >> On Sunday, Ja...
> > >
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