Boot Problems

[Matthew S-H]

I had used "sudo dd ......" in the past to make a backup of my 
partition before upgrading to hoary.  i then upgraded to hoary and had 
some problems.  i wanted to restore it.  so i did the "sudo dd ......" 
thing in reverse.  Now, however, I have a problem.  My system is not 
booting properly.
When booting, after the normal stuff --- just after:
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> Starting Ubuntu...
I get:
> * cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS"
> * Entering runlevel: 2
> * cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
>
> /dev/hdb1 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-(none) login:

It should be noted that no keyboard input is accepted (not even 
ctrl,alt,delete).

Also, if any replies could be sent to this e-mail address 
(mathbymath at aol.com), I would appreciate it.  I am currently in the 
process of fixing two computers and am stuck using a very old computer 
that I do not have enough time accessing to look through all of my 
e-mail.  I should have them all running by next Monday.  At that point 
I hope to resubscribe tp this list (I have currently suspended all 
e-mails directly from the list).  Also, hopefully, I will be able to 
help some new people that actually have questions that I understand 
well enough to help with.

Again, thanks to EVERYONE for their help and I LOVE Ubuntu (altho I 
have not properly been acquainted with Hoary yet).


~Matt