<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Derek Broughton wrote: <blockquote cite="midhugua4-1mf.ln1@pointerstop.ca" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Vayu wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I shut down normally and upon the next boot my system was broken. I get a root command line that has lost it's access to my hard disk. I get the error message Target sbin/init not found. I can't find sbin/init using ls, nor much of anything else like boot/grub or my home directory... If I boot from a live CD I can mount the linux partition /dev/sda4 and see everything is there and looks intact. It doesn't appear to be a hard drive failure. I can still boot into windows. As a matter of fact I installed the ext2 driver in windows and I can now access my data from windows. (From there I can see sbin/init as well.) I'm using Dapper, I did not do any kind of upgrades, it just happened out of the blue. Any ideas on what is corrupt, and how I can get my system back without a re-install? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> One would assume that you don't have a mounted root partition, which probably means it failed fsck. So the best bet would be to boot from the live CD and run fsck on /dev/sda4. Before that, it's probably not a bad idea to check what the boot options look like in grub - but I think that must be right or you wouldn't even get to the point of looking for sbin/init. </pre> </blockquote> fsck comes clean. fdisk -l shows the partition fine. For some reason I can't mount it from the live CD anymore, it says bad superblock, missing code page or other error. I replaced the superblock with a backup, it found (and I let it fix) about 2 dozen errors but still no go. I can see everything with the windows ext2 driver. Windows also has no trouble with the fat32 partition or it's own NTFS partition. </body> </html>