Boot Problems

[albi at scii.nl]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:41:11 -0400
Matthew S-H <mathbymath at aol.com> wrote:

> 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).

did you try a "recovery mode" (runlevel 1) from the grub-menu ?

also, if you have the dd-image on another machine and you want to
restore data, then e.g. mount dd-image /mnt -o loop ; cd /mnt ; ls
could help