Kernel panic - not syncing No working init found.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-05-07 18:00:13

Diadlo wrote:

warning: Sector 33 is already in use by the program 'FlexNet'; avoiding it. This software may cause boot or other problems in future. Please ask its authors not to store data in the boot track.

That's why your system isn't booting -- there is something else in your MBR.

What is this "FlexNet" and how did you install it?

You can try blanking the MBR then chroot in and try to install GRUB again:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1

It might be worth backing up the MBR first (but maybe not 'cos it's clearly broken already):

# dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1

ewaller · 2015-05-07 18:04:25

That looks okay. But sda1 is the first volume on the disk, and it does not start until sector 2048.
Have you, per chance, created a file system on the driver rather than a volume on the drive at sometime in the past?

Edit: Posted at the same time as Head On A Stick. It looks like we are chasing the same thought.

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Diadlo · 2015-05-07 19:12:28

I never seen "FlexNet" name before. May be some dependence?
dd output:
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
446 bytes copied
grub-install after it get the same error about 33 and 34 sectors and FlexNet

It is normal?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-05-07 19:20:15

Diadlo wrote:

It is normal?

Not even slightly...

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the partition table should be in those sectors.

Please post the output of:

# parted -l

Spider.007 · 2015-05-07 19:26:22

A similar issue was reported @ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1661254, but it also shows the need to wipe, and you need to be very careful if you want to keep your data

Diadlo · 2015-05-07 19:26:36

http://postimg.org/image/fwhrck1nt

Diadlo · 2015-05-07 19:44:54

Spider.007 wrote:

A similar issue was reported @ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1661254, but it also shows the need to wipe, and you need to be very careful if you want to keep your data

I do that. Now grub-install working without warnings. But grub already get error

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-05-07 19:45:06

Spider.007 wrote:

A similar issue was reported @ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1661254, but it also shows the need to wipe, and you need to be very careful if you want to keep your data

@OP: So you can try the dd command suggested there but it will wipe your partition table as well as the bootloader:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

After you have done this, if you recreate the exact same table with the same start and end points then you should be able to retain your information.

This can be done very accurately on GPT disks with gdisk (this gives exact sector locations for the partitions) but I'm not sure if you can acheive this on an MBR disk with fdisk or parted...

Diadlo · 2015-05-07 19:51:08

In post author says, that may be enough erase only 33 and 34 sectors. And I did it. But problem saved

Diadlo · 2015-05-07 20:11:26

I repeat all actions and it's worked. GRUB boot successfully. But error with init saved

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-05-07 20:38:22

Well, I'm all out of ideas

Perhaps someone else will be of more use.

Diadlo · 2015-05-07 20:50:42

I think I soon began to use arch linux.

Diadlo · 2015-05-07 21:02:39

It may be problem with HDD? Like bad sectors or something else?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-05-07 21:04:09

Could be.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S.M.A.R.T.

jasonwryan · 2015-05-07 21:40:47

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Could be.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S.M.A.R.T.

I'm guessing you meant How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Or, perhaps https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SMART

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-05-07 21:51:07

jasonwryan wrote:

Or, perhaps https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SMART

That's the one yes -- don't know what happened there, I'm usually a whizz with copy-pasting...

EDIT: That's really weird -- when I search via the ArchWiki search box for "smart" it takes me to the page I linked but if the URL is entered independently the page isn't found.

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jasonwryan · 2015-05-07 22:01:10

Periods are in the title, not the URL

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-05-07 22:04:48

jasonwryan wrote:

Periods are in the title, not the URL

Check my scrot -- the URL in Iceweasel show the full stops.

jasonwryan · 2015-05-07 22:12:26

That is odd. Let me look into it some more...

dcdriving · 2015-05-07 22:24:12

@Head_on_a_Stick. Your original link just missed the final period after the T. Its typed but not included in the url. I was intrigued!

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-05-08 07:21:54

dcdriving wrote:

@Head_on_a_Stick. Your original link just missed the final period after the T. Its typed but not included in the url. I was intrigued!

Good catch -- thank you!

Spider.007 · 2015-05-08 10:43:14

Does sda1 even contain your rootfs? What is on sda3? Does the fallback-grub option work? Does grub still output the error you posted in your topicstart No working init found? You can also have a look at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192296 which describes the same error, with a possible solution

The problem is that /usr/lib64/ should be a symbolic link to the /usr/lib/, but it was a folder containing something

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Diadlo · 2015-05-08 11:20:21

Hmm... Yes. I didn't have link /usr/lib64 -> /usr/lib. I have done everything that he say. But nothing has changed. /usr/lib32 must be link on /usr/lib?

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mauritiusdadd · 2015-05-08 11:28:42

Diadlo wrote:

/usr/lib32 must be link on /usr/lib?

No, /usr/lib32 is a directory containing libraries provided by packages from [multilib] repo.

Spider.007 · 2015-05-08 12:13:09

If you're missing that you might be missing more. What does `pacman -Qkk filesystem` say (ignore the modification , size & permission mismatches) ?

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