Help please!Forum: HD Install Topic: Help please! started by: SeNS Posted by SeNS on Dec. 23 2005,04:02
Unfortunatelly my linux-box died after a month of nice work as a video player :-( I'm a linux newbie and have NO experience how to restore linux to normal work. Probably it's cause of some disk errors?.. Don't know. Now after loading kernel it's displays couple of times: /bin/sh: /bin/sh: no version information available (required by /lib/libncourses.so.5) /bin/sh: relocation error: /lib/libncources.so.5: undefinded symbol: INIT: Id "1" respawing too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes. and hungs after this message (waiting for something?..) I boot from linux CD and start fsck /dev/hda1, found and repair some disk errors, but hdd boot still the same Could someone explain to me what's going on and how to repair linux, please? Posted by starcannon on Jan. 03 2006,00:46
This was a DSLinux box to start with?If so was it a HDD install, Frugal Install, Poormans Install, or ? If you did a typical debian HDD install then your work could be tedious, I'd probably try something like backing up all my important data by booting in from a dsl cd and burning the files or moving them across the network then reinstalling DSLinux If however you did a Frugal Install then its a quick and painless restore of the boot partition usually hda1 and letting the install script rebuild your lilo or grub file. boot from cd at prompt "dsl frugal" or if you need to reinstall your frugal image boot from your cd then type "dsl vga=xxx 2"(xxx being your cheatcode press F3 to find out what your xxx value is. !!The following commands will DESTROY ALL DATA ON HDXX!! !!Proceed With Extreme Caution!! if your using ext3 mke2fs -j /dev/hdxx to format your frugal install partition, or if your using ext2 mke2fs /dev/hdxx now that your partition is formatted you can run the frugal install script. for a LiLo install type /usr/sbin/frugal_install.sh for GRUB type /usr/sbin/frugal_grub.sh follow prompts be sure to remember to give opt=hdxx home=hdxx wherever your persistent locatioins were the first time you set this up. GL and hope this was of some use, if not then keep trying, and be sure to start googling your outputs. Rob |