Question

This morning my notebook decided to give me a nice present:

Killed
mount: mounting /dev on /root/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.
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.

The strange thing is that I switch on the first time Debian and I logged in successfully. Then I try to open Emacs and the program window did not appear but the CPU usage immediately go up to 100% of usage! I saw with top command that the process was in bg, but nothing appeared to me. So I killed brutally the emacs process and I try again to open it. Nothing. The same scenario. So I try to reboot the system and it appeared to me that error!

I also have Windows 7 installed and so I try to log in in. Windows says me that some errors on the disk created problems, so I follow the instrucion to recovery and now I can log in in Windows, but not in Linux. I already did the Windows scan disk for all the disk, but the problem continue. And I cannot enter on Linux.

Probably I can try with the Debian live cd-rom, but I haven’t still do it.

Answer 1

Could be a hardware failure (disk perhaps), or some boot sector issue, or something else.

Try running smartctl from the smartmontools package.