Re: Help. Can't boot all of a sudden.
In article <[🔎] 9606011813.AA12173@mccarthy.csd.uwo.ca>,
Dale Miller <dale@csd.uwo.ca> wrote:
>I was using my linux box today and noticed that
>when I logged out on a tty the boo login prompt
>did not return. I then rebooted and all of a sudden
>the kernel stoips booting at INIT: Booting v2.61.
>It stops here and will go no further. I updated
>a couple of packages like quota, cvs and a couple
>of others. Is there some way to get this to reboot
>without re-installing. Any help would be appreciated.
You probably deleted one or more files from /dev by accident..
boot from the boot/root set, mount your root file system under
/mnt and execute MAKEDEV in /mnt/dev.
Mike.
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