[NTLUG:Discuss] now Ive done it...[the neverending story]

[alh]

> Lo, on Tuesday, 25 April, 2000, Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com did write:
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> >
> >
> > oh, ok, you can't get back into the box.  you'll have to boot with the
> > rescue disk.  If you won't lose much I would suggest reinstalling.
>
> You can also reboot, and at the LILO prompt, type
>
> linux init=/bin/bash
>
this still failed on mingetty
but it gave me the idea to try the stock kernel
that failed on init as well...but differently

INIT:PANIC: Segmentation Violation at 0x804b908! Sleeping for 30 Seconds

each successive boot gives more and varied errors until
the kernel wont even load now...it fails with strange things like
CPU=1
000xxxfff 0000 fffff

and more like that
what is going on
is it hardware failure?
do I need to worry about investing the time into a reinstall?
I am now trying to copy my home to a non-boot drive
>
> > do you still have the executable /sbin/mingetty?  Did permissions get
> > screwed up?  Does " rpm --verify mingetty" return any errors?  Are you
> > sure no packages were installed on the hard drive you removed?

I removed no hardrives

and all my install partitions are on one drive so the other drives dont
affect programs just my storage space