[solved]Kernel panic - not syncing: no init found

[andrewPi]

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My pi froze after I saved a file. I pulled the power plug because nothing else responded and now on boot up it locks up after a multitude of error messages.
mmcblko: error -84 transferring data, sector.....
mmc0: DMA IRQ 6 ignored - results were reset
end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 1695752 (9 more of these)
Aborting journal on device mmcblk0p2-8
journal commit I/O error
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Kernel panic - not syncing: no init found
Any easy fix? How can I save my files?

[redhawk]

Time to backup your data it looks like your memory card is going bad certain sectors are not readable.
For backing up data the easiest option would be to first flash Linux OS to a new SD Card and then using a USB memory card reader mount your old SD Card in the Pi and copy files over.
If you encounter problems accessing the old file system then Diskinternals Linux reader maybe able to help - http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

Richard S.

[andrewPi]

Thanks. I used diskutilities to find the files. Back in business.

[pwalden]

I have run into this problem

Unfortunately I have no backup of the SD card.

I can mount the card on a separate linux system.

Is there a cookbook of files to copy over so that I don't have to start from scratch on installing all the apts and configuring them again? i.e apache, motion, and so on.