Freeing unused kernel memory - Solved.

[Mike Wooding]

--- Mark Farmer <farmorg at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:32:27 -0800 (PST), Mike Wooding
> <timmywooding at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > --- Mark Farmer <farmerma at cromwell.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > OK folks, for the record & for anyone else who gets stuck on
> this, I
> > > fixed the problem by booting into rescue mode from cd1, chrooted
> into
> > >
> > > /mnt/sysimage and forced a reinstall of init like this:
> >  ...
> > 
> >  Was "init" missing? Corrupted? I.e. what did you see
> >  that prompted you to reinstall init?
> 
> I'm not sure what was wrong with init to be honest, I checked the
> boot
> logs of previous sucessfull boots & noted that init was the first
> thing that was started after freeing the unused kernel memory, seems
> so obvious now I could kick myself as we all know that "init comes
> first" right?.  Since that seemed to be the part that was failing I
> figured reinstalling init would either make or break the situation,
> things couldn't get much worse at that point so I went for it & it
> payed off :-)

 Guess that leaves us wondering what would trash init. :-(


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