After several weeks of running well, my Ubuntu (10.04, I think)/ISPConfig3 box has totally crapped out on me. A little background. I would be considered a Linux newb even though this is the 3rd time I have attempted to learn a little about Linux through building an ISPconfig box. Maybe it is beyond me. I consider myself pretty literate on most computer issues (in a Windows environment, obviously) I followed the perfect setup for Ubuntu/ISPConfig 3 and all was well. After not logging in for a few days the box seemed to run slowly. I rebooted it through a command line (Telnet) and then it didn't respond. I hooked it up to a monitor and keyboard/mouse and booted it again. I got some sort of busybox/intrafms message. I read up on this and found that holding the shift key would get me into grub. I attempted to alter the Grub menu but the edits would not stick. After more research I tried to update (or was it re-install?) Grub. This seemed to work but on reboot I got a Grub prompt. Then I booted to Live CD and tried to fix it that way. However, when I mount the partition with the boot folder and try to apply any of the suggested fixes, the system does not seem to recognize that the partition was mounted. I got: "cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?)" I think this may be a permissions problem (I was using "sudo") because I noticed that there was no grub.cfg file in the boot/grub folder (it is Grub2 - there is no menu.lst file either) but there was a "grub" folder outside the "boot" folder (maybe from my attempt to update grub?) This folder had a grub.cfg file and when I try to copy it into the grub/boot folder it told me I didn't have permission. I ran "sudo mount /dev/sda1 mnt" and tried again but it didn't seem to help. Do I need to wipe the drive and start again? I sure hope not. Any help is greatly appreciated. I apologize if my rant is incoherent
Mark, I'm sorry. I didn't write it down. I didn't actually enter Busybox, it just booted to it. I believe the error had something to do with the device not being readable. Then it kicked to intramfs.
luckily a server has only one device in it ;-) please be more specific with your error messages, we can't start guessing here ;-)
Unknow error Mark, I appreciate the help. I'm sorry but I tried to fix this mess without bothering the community, hoping to learn more Linux in the process. It's been 3 days since I've seen the message and I did not write it down. I had Googled the error message when it came up and just tried searching my Google search history to find the exact message, but it is not available. I can get to the Grub prompt, or boot from Live CD, is there a way to view a log history or something that might tell us the error message?
Anyone? I've got a long weekend coming up. Is it worth trying to investigate this or should I wipe it and try again. Or should I give up until I'm better versed in Linux? Thanks
What's your partitioning scheme? Do you have just one large / partition, or do you have multiple partitions? If the latter, did you mount all partitions (including /)?
I followed the perfect setup The disk utility shows 3 "volumes" 1) 255MB Ext2 (boot partition ?) /dev/sda1 Bootable 2) 100GB "Container for logical partitions" /dev/sda2 3) 100GB extended LVM2 physical volume /devsda5 Looking at this something seems wrong, since it is only a 100GB drive. Am I reading this incorrectly? Under "places" it only shows sda1 available to mount. Using a terminal, I tried to mount sda5 like this: sudo mount /dev/sda5 mnt I got this error message = unknown filetype Also tried: sudo mount /dev mnt It says I need to specify the filetype and sudo mount /dev/ /media says that the mount point /media does not exist
I guess I'll start over Unless someone has a suggestion, I guess I'll start from scratch again. Thank you for the help, anyways.
