Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Ardour Crash + can't boot
From: Mark Knecht (markknecht_AT_comcast.net)
Date: Sun Apr 25 2004 - 02:54:00 EEST
Aaron,
Bummer. Disk problems.
I see you've gotten a large number of responses. I haven't read too
many of them yet, but my input would be to reboot using a CD-based
LiveCD, like Knoppix, Damn Small Linux or Dynebolic. These give you
access to disks so you can do some checking. From here you can run all
the normal tools (parted, fdisk, cfdisk - whatever you are most
comfortable with) and you can determine if it's the partition that's
messed up or the partition table.
If you have another hard disk hanging around then you might rebuild
the system using it and not this drive. Once that system is up and going
you could then do some more work with the drive if you needed to.
Sorry to hear about your problems.
- Mark
On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 02:57, Aaron Trumm wrote:
> reposting this cuz I ALWAYS forget to make the messages plain text from my
> windows machine:
>
> Hello all - this has actually become a general problem, but I think it was
> caused by Ardour, so I'm cross posting on linux audio and the ardour lists
>
> I'm running Red Hat and the latest ardour from Planet CCRMA which I think is
> 0.9beta11.2-1 - I was recording a take, and upon pushing stop Ardour
> crashed - a similar has happened many times with this version, actually
> pretty much every time - after the take, it gives me a memory error, I click
> ok, ardour exits, I go back, but it kept the take.
>
> but this time, it crashed without that, i started ardour again, the take
> WASN'T there, and then ardour either froze or crashed I can't remember which
> cuz I was in session so it was hectic, and I needed to reboot manually and
> so I did, and now, though, it won't boot - it hangs and says "kernel panic.
> no init found. try passing the init= option"
>
> I can provide more details if needed - I think the kernel is also the latest
> planet kernel - but from what I've been able to find I don't think it
> matters.
>
> so I grabbed my emergency boot disk, or what I think is my emergency boot
> disk, because I have never used it, and reset, and I get what I'm sure is a
> familiar prompt to most, the 'ol
>
> boot:
>
> and it's telling me to hit return or wait ten seconds to boot from /dev/hda2
> (hmmm - is that where the boot loader really is on my system? not sure) -
> and that I can "type "linux <params>", and press <return> if I want to
> override the defaults
>
> now I know nothing about these params and I'm more familiar with a dos boot
> disk where i shove that thing in and reboot and I'm looking at a dos prompt
> even if my harddrive is totally wanked.
>
> what I've read has told me to boot up and edit some files - fstab maybe?
> but uh - *blush* - how can I get to a danged prompt?
>
>
> for the ardour list: does this sound familiar, is this version of ardour
> known to do this kind of thing?
>
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