07-31-2007
well, thanks a lot for replay, yet the news are not so consolatory :-)
but i'm also incline to try reinstall, especially because the box was almost empty before the failure. there were no needed data, only OS and the oracle client installation on the middle of which the power in a whole building shut down and everything died.
i just wanted to try to fix it for the sport of it, but nothing worked. also, what i have to mention, is that during the oracle client installation, i made
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.18
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
this is a preinstall requirement for oracle. then the power died and since it came back, the box cannot boot. my question is could it somehow "remember" this setting, despite the fact the this setting is only work for current session? could this setting somehow cause this problem and if yes, is there the way to unset this param?
thanks for your help and suggestions,
M.
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switch_root
SWITCH_ROOT(8) System Administration SWITCH_ROOT(8)
NAME
switch_root - switch to another filesystem as the root of the mount tree
SYNOPSIS
switch_root [-hV]
switch_root newroot init [arg...]
DESCRIPTION
switch_root moves already mounted /proc, /dev, /sys and /run to newroot and makes newroot the new root filesystem and starts init process.
WARNING: switch_root removes recursively all files and directories on the current root filesystem.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
RETURN VALUE
switch_root returns 0 on success and 1 on failure.
NOTES
switch_root will fail to function if newroot is not the root of a mount. If you want to switch root into a directory that does not meet
this requirement then you can first use a bind-mounting trick to turn any directory into a mount point:
mount --bind $DIR $DIR
SEE ALSO
chroot(2), init(8), mkinitrd(8), mount(8)
AUTHORS
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
AVAILABILITY
The switch_root command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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