Re: Hamm upgrade troubles. Help!

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] Pine.SUN.3.91.980108100821.13619B-100000@karman>,
Maria Lynn Jason Rightley <mljason@karman.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
>INIT: version 2.73 booting
>INIT: Cannot execute "/etc/init.d/boot"
>INIT: Entering runlevel: 2

Do the following:

- boot the system with -b added on the LILO command line
  (for example, boot: linux -b)
- Now in maintenance mode, mount the root file system r/w:
  # mount -n -o remount,rw /
- Edit /etc/inittab
- look for the line with /etc/init.d/boot in it
- Replace that with:

  # Boot-time system configuration/initialization script.
  si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS

- save the file
- umount and reboot:

  # mount -n -oremount,ro /
  # reboot -f

Something hosed your /etc/inittab during the upgrade, but I have no idea why.
I think you had a buggy version of sysvinit installed by accident before..
(there have been some troubles in the 2.72 series)

Mike.
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