Boot Problem after Crash

[Tyler Aviss]

GRUB or LILO?

If you're using grub, can you boot CD and pass along your menu.lst or grub.conf?
If LILO, how about booting from CD and then re-running the LILO installer?

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Tony Abou-Assaleh <taa-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi tlugers,
>
>  My PSU was toasted. I took the HDD out and installed it on another PC.
>  The file system had problems but after e2fsck it appears stable. No data
>  was lost as far as I can tell, but I couldn't boot into by Ubuntu 7.10
>  (xubunutu) Linux.
>
>  I booted using a live CD and went to rescue mode. I updated/upgraded
>  packages using apt-get, executed update-initramfs, and all seemed well.
>  I can even start apache and sshd from this rescue shell.
>
>  When I try to boot from the HDD I consistently get the same thing: I get
>  the BusyBox initramfs shell and I don't know how to go past that.
>  Nothing is mounted.
>
>  I have the boot partition on /dev/sda1 and the root partition on raid1
>  volume. I am using only a single drive from the raid array.
>
>  Any ideas why I'm getting the initramfs prompt on boot and how to get
>  past that?
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  TAA
>
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>  Tony Abou-Assaleh
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