Freeing unused kernel memory - Update

[Mark Farmer]

Mark Farmer wrote:
> The system uses lilo for a bootloader, I dropped to a boot prompt & did 
> 'linux single' but the result is exactly the same, however something has 
> changed after I booted back into rescue mode using the cd, having read 
> via Google about problems with swap space I chrooted into /mnt/sysimage 
> and did a 'mkswap /dev/sda8' as fdisk & fstab list that partition as 
> being swap, now when the machine stops booting at the "freeing unused 
> kernel memory" hitting ctrl+alt+del does not reboot the box, it gives a 
> message "md: stopping all md devices" and hangs there.
> 
> I'm thinking now that it is a swap problem as the previous boot logs 
> show that "adding swap" is the next stage in the boot process.  Is it 
> safe to use fdisk to delete & re-add the swap partition in rescue mode, 
> of course doing an 'mkswap /dev/sda8' afterwards?

I tried a couple of other boot options, first I tried 'linux 
init=/sbin/init' no joy there, then 'linux init=/bin/sh' which got me to 
a very basic system with a prompt, so now i'm wondering if there's a 
problem with init.  Is it possible to reinstall init from an rpm? 
Anyone think this will help?

-- 
Mark Farmer
Linux System Administrator


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