G'day

Well, after getting my new Myth box to a point where I was about to install it in the loungeroom ( wireless working, DVD burning working etc etc etc), my 18 month old walks into the room and hits the cool looking blue button on the Overture case.

Instant, graceless shutdown and on reboot a kernel panic during bootup, messages relating to no ext3 partition and can't find init, this is where the boot hangs.

As a relatively noob linuxer, where do I go from here? I tried booting from the knoopmyth install CD and fdisk says I've still got the partitions intact.

I have spent at least a week getting this box going and don't want to have to start all over again.

Googling etc, seems to reap me more questions than answers.

Matt

fdisk? How about fsck.
Boot off the CD and:Assuming you did an auto install. Reboot and check the db after the system comes up (hopfully).

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Ouch! You'll probably want to disable that or physically block it somehow.

Thankyou thankyou thankyou,

I now have a running system again thanks to a reboot and the fsck.ext3 got me out of jail. I got a few busted inodes when I finally rebooted but they came out with a subsequent reboot.

Looks like I need to learn a bit about the Linux filesystems, I have been a sysadmin with QNX for a few years now and am used to powering off boxes willy-nilly.

Thanks again.

If you haven't got that box on a UPS that's the definitely the next step. We're not talking about an expensive one here, all you really need is enough juice to bridge the little power blips and shut the box down in an orderly fashion for the bigger ones.

I'm using an APC Back-UPS ES 500 (one of the ones that looks like a powerstrip on steroids) which I picked up for $50-60 and it's definitely helped to keep everything running smoothly.

definately would be a good idea to move the power switch to the back or ... if you pick up a ups ... just unplug it from the mainboard ... dont forget the reset switch too
rat hut (radio shack) sells miniture momentary switches that are perfect for stealth power and reset buttons ... specially if there's enough clearance under the case ... just mount them there

you should at least be able to change in the bios what the power button does, and make it do a soft power-off rather than instant, and linux should be able to detect that and do an orderly shut down (not looked at how debian/knoppix/knoppmyth would do that).
Although if the button was held pressed for 5 seconds or so, it'll probably do a hard power-off anyway so might be safer to remove the button altogether as suggested...

Steve.