Init file in the Sbin got deleted.What should be done now?

[ramprasadh]

Hi

There was a power failure here(I don have a UPS), and when i started the system again it prompted me like ' No init found '.I tried booting again in the recovery mode and it displayed the same thing.

No.1: What should I do to get the back up of my data in there?
No.2: can I load the sbin directory alone and make my system work?

[Kloschüssel]

This can be caused by several things and it's hard to give you a specific and correct "this resolves all your problems" message.

Common problems are:
* hard disk failure
* raid failure
* other hardware problems (maybe a high voltage peak that molted some hardware parts?)

Normally I would try to boot a linux live image (i.e. from a cd or a usb dongle), try to mount the filesystem and see what's wrong. This way you may be able to chroot into your broken system and fix it to start again.

Let us know how you get on!

Cheers

[Rubberman]

The init process (usually found as /sbin/init) is the parent of all processes for Linux. Also, there is the /etc/init directory, which contains all of the startup/shutdown scripts needed to process all of the services required to run the system - they are managed with the /sbin/init process. If the system cannot find init, then it means that the power failure has fubar'd your hard drive. Boot from a live cd/dvd and try to recover it with fsck. If that does not work, then you will need to restore the OS from backup, or at least /sbin from a known good copy of the same OS version.

As far as I'm concerned, one should NEVER run a system without a UPS. At least a laptop has a battery in case wall power fails - sort of a built-in ups...

[ramprasadh]

I found out!!!!!. I just took the hard drive out , connected it to an other system and tried to mount it. Although I faced some problems in mounting that , I used some commands for the recovery .Consumed a lot of time but I was able to get my data back.

Learnt a lot in using terminals. Hectic!!!!