[ale] init problem after dist-upgrade

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sun Jan 30 22:24:03 EST 2011


Don't know about ubuntu but fedora has a install method that exports
the screen to a remote system. From that you can do screen captures.

If you can't do that then you have to use a serial port connection and
a terminal tool. No gui capability on that setup.

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
<savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to capture the err messages?
>
> On Jan 30, 2011 5:37 PM, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 15:55 -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
>> I have 3 entries 35.25, 35.24, 35....
>
> I've seen this before and, invariably, it's the last error you see
> because something else has failed earlier on and it was unable to mount
> the root file system.  That's a failure at the very last stage of the
> initramfs.  Is that the FIRST error you see?  If not, what is the very
> first error?
>
> Mike
>
>> If I go to recovery mode can I specify the Init and if so how ?
>>
>> -Narahari
>>
>> On Sunday, Ja...
>
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