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Re: Where did my init.d/boot go?



On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 05:46:07AM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
(...)
> > 
> > Your install is broken by buggy grep 2.1-6.
> > I got the same result but I upgrade a copy of my system :)
> > Get grep 2.1-7 and maybe reinstall all packages by hand (whith: dpkg -i).
> 
> No, these are two different problems. grep_2.1-6 is severely broken and
> should be replaced by a newer version. The boot.OLD file is not a bug or
> an error, it is intended behaviour. The /etc/init.d/boot script has bee
> split up into several scripts. Take a look in /etc/rcS.d/ to see what it
> run in which order ar boot time.

Yes, I know that /etc/init.d/boot has been split. Upgrading init files (and
all others) was broken because grep_2.1-6 was installed and upgrade to
grep_2.1-7 don't solve problems with broken system without reinstall all of
broken packages :(

> 
> If your sysvinit is really broken, you can boot Linux directly into bash.
> At the LILO boot prompt, type
> 
> linux init=/bin/bash
> 
> This will load bash instead of init, so you get a root shell with no
> questions asked.
> 

Thanks for hint :)

Mirek


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