Kernel Panic

[S. Lawton]

On 29 Mar 2002, at 15:24, Cyber Source wrote:

> You can use the Mandrake CD to boot to rescue (f1), then you can
> simulate your system by "chroot /mnt" but before you do that, take a
> look at your partitions by "cfdisk /dev/hd?" with the question mark
> being your drive letter. Once you know that they are all ok, you can
> then check your /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files, they will be under
> /mnt/etc/fstab and /mnt/etc/mtab respectively using the restore process.
> That should get you off to a good start. peter at thecybersource.com 

fdisk /dev/hda 
partitions appeared to be OK. 

a tail of /mnt/etc/log/syslog  yielded the line- 
MAR 28 15:17:57 Printerdrake PID 3012 
the moment disaster struck. 

ls -al of /mnt/etc 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   704 MAR 12 16:50 fstab 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1756 MAR 23 18:26 inittab 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   534 MAR 28 20:13 mtab 


less of /etc/mtab 
/dev/hda7/mnt ext2 rw 00     [this should be my linux root] 
/dev/hda11/mnt/home ext2 rw 00 
/dev/hda9/mnt/usr ext2 rw 00 
/dev/hda10/mnt/var ext2 rw 00 

Then I tried chroot /mnt from the root@ rescue prompt, but got 
Permission Denied. 
How does ROOT get DENIED PERMISSION ????? 

PS- Sorry, Darin, I was reading personal mail and forgot to change 
identities before opening my nflug inbox. Wrong reply settings and 
all that. 

Scott 

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