Have you rebooted since the installfest? A couple things I've seen before: 1) If you make changes to the kernel, or recompile it, there can be problems with updates via packaging systems. 2) If you wait too long to reboot after an upgrade, especially if there are multiple kernel upgrades in the meantime, you can have kernel images that don't boot. As Eric suggested, booting with an older kernel is a good test. Otherwise, try a rescue disk and verify that you can access the files. If the files really aren't there, then you might need to check the SMART data for the drive. Jeremy On Friday 14 September 2007 4:02:02 pm Fred H Olson wrote: > Today I installed some 80 accumulated upgrades to my Ubuntu 6.06 system > with no apparent problem til I rebooted as it instructed me. It did not > get very far... Below is the hand transcribed but pretty close listing of > the error messages. Note that a few weeks ago at the install fest we > increased the size of the partition the system is in by moving all the > files to an external hard disk , making a new larger partition and moving > the files back. After some tweaking that has been running fine. > Anyone recognise what's going on here? > > Thanks , Fred > > last messages displayed while booting Ubuntu 6.06 system before stopping: > > > modprobe -l -t <dirname> [-a <modulename...] > mount: > Cannot read /etc/fstab: No such file or directory > mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed No such file or > directory > mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed No such file or directory > mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed No such file or directory > Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init > > > Busybox v1.01 (Debian 1:1.01-4ubuntu3) Built-in shell (ash) > Enter 'help' for list of built-in commands. > > /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off > > # > > -- > Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 USA (near north Mpls) > Communications for Justice -- Free, superior listserv's w/o ads: > http://justcomm.org My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org > 612-588-9532 (7am-10pm CST/CDT) Email: fholson at cohousing.org > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list