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theometrica
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 Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 1:49 pm Post subject: Attempted to kill init! I/O error on amd64 minimal |
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Good day to all,
I've got a Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G that refuses to boot with a the latest amd64 minimal cd.
Just after the keymap select, I get this:
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cp: read error: input /output error
cp: read error: input /output error
cp: read error: input /output error
>>No cdupdate.sh script found, skipping...
>>Booting (initramfs)..
SQUASHFS error: zlib_inflate error, data probably corrupt
SQUASHFS error: squathfs_read_data failed to read block 0x24e3c34
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache entry [0x24e3c34]
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 0x24e3c34, size ac9b
switch_root: bad init /sbin/init: input/output error
Kernel Panic - not synching: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: switch_root Not tainted 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8137bf3a>] ? panic+0x06/0x124
[<ffffffff810925fa>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x23/0xdb
[<ffffffff8107cbbc>] ? filp_close+0x5b/0x63
[<ffffffff8103a1d8>] ? exit_ptrace+0x5b/0x62
[<ffffffff810357f9>] ? do_exit+0x30/0x120
[<ffffffff81035da3>] ? do_group_exit+0x66/0x93
[<ffffffff81035de2>] ? sys_exit_group+0z12/0x16
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I've tried a number of combinations including:
gentoo noload=ahci nousb
gentoo noload=ahci,usbhid nodmraid nousb noscsi
gentoo noload=ahci,usbhid nodmraid nousb noscsi nousb
gentoo nodetect
The md5 for the iso checked out and memtest says the 1.5G of RAM is okay after 2 passes.
I'm guessing either obscure Sony proprietary hardware (which is what I'm hoping for), a fried i/o controller (which I'm crossing my fingers against), or some glorious awakening that one of your could point me towards.
It likely also bears mentioning that the WinXP and WinVista CDs I have sit at a cursor when I try to load them on this thing, but they're scratched all to hell and the drive on this thing is finicky (an old beat up x86 minimal CD from last year will barely load the kernel on it, but works fine on the box I'm typing on now). I'm going to burn some new ones and see what happens.
I also tried a USB LiveCD but I don't think the bios supports it.
Any suggestions?
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eccerr0r
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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The errors are pointing towards a corrupt burn. Did you md5sum check the iso image or the cd itself after reading it back?
In any case it ended up confusing itself, and then tried to resort back to the "parent of all processes" init, and found init couldn't continue either. Thus the panic when it tried to kill init.
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theometrica
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 2:24 am Post subject: |
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Tried a 10.1 amd64 livecd. Checked the md5 of the iso, but couldn't figure out how to check the CD in window. I did burn it at 2x though.
I still get "cp: read error: input /output error " 
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Rexilion
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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| theometrica wrote: | Tried a 10.1 amd64 livecd. Checked the md5 of the iso, but couldn't figure out how to check the CD in window. I did burn it at 2x though.
I still get "cp: read error: input /output error " |
To check the md5sum, I would do this:
| Code: | | md5sum /path/to/iso/you/use/to/burn/image.iso |
Then, for the CD:
| Code: | dd if=/dev/sr0 of=temp.iso
md5sum temp.iso |
If both md5sums are a mismatch, then your burner is doing something stupid. If not, then something is wrong with the code or memory? |
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theometrica
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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Thank s for that. Alas, the DVD still checks out. 
Any other ideas? It seems like it's able to mount the cd just fine. It's when it's "Copying read-write image contents to tmpfs" that things get all wonky.
I was able to get it drop me to a prompt once or twice. Is there any troubleshooting/configuration I can be doing from in there?
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Try running memtest, I think something is wonky in your box :/ |
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