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slinga - Mar 9, 2004

		slinga	Mar 9, 2004
		I'm running a Red Hat 9.0 box as a Snort IDS for a security project at school. Sunday night I modified some of the Snort rules on the box, and rebooted via SSH. The box never came back up. Going to the box yesterday I saw this error message (with the keyboard lights blinking like crazy): Pivotroot: pivot_root/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd failed:2 unmount /initrd/ proc failed:2 Freeing Unused kernel Memory: 132k Kernel Panic: No Init found I have no idea what this error means, and I've been trying to google a solution for it. I burned a Knoppix CD (for those that don't know, a cd bootable linux) and all the hardware looks\works fine. I can even mount the hard drive. My question is, what do I have to do to get my machine to boot again? I was thinking about reinstalling Red Hat, but would I lose my data on the machine? What about my startup scripts? I have about 2 gigs of IDS traffic logged that I cant' lose, I have to give a presentation tomorrow!!! Edit: Question 2: I want to add another hard drive to this machine. I want to move the log data to the new drive, and to have it continually update. Is there an easy to do this? Say is it possible to mount /etc/snort/log to the new drive? Thanks in advance. P.S. - I'm a unix\linux\solaris\non-windows newb

		antime	Mar 9, 2004
		First hit on Google.... EDIT: Even if you can't get the RedHat installation working tonight, you can still use your Knoppix CD to transfer the logs somewhere else.

		slinga	Mar 9, 2004
		Thanks Antime, As usual, you were right. :bow It's booting fine, my presentation is done, and Snort is snorting again. I'm having a little trouble with the spare hard drive I installed, but I can worry about that some other time. Thanks again.

		IBarracudaI	Mar 9, 2004
		lol, nice solution :lol:

		IceDigger	Mar 9, 2004
		haha nice