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Re: /etc/init.d/rc.2 command not found....



In article <[🔎] linux.os.m38zcbds6z.fsf@chello.at>,
Josef Oswald  <oswald@chello.at> wrote:
>> Anyway, I think I know what's happening. Something is setting the
>> "debug" environment variable to "2". Could you edit /etc/init.d/rc
>> and put 'debug=""' at the top? I think that might fix it. I'm not
>> sure what exactly sets the 'debug' environment variable though.
>
>Yes that did it :-) 

Right, so now we know the cause of this.

>> Oh, what's the output of cat /proc/cmdline ?
>
>mem=458736K  hpt366.c noapic nosmp debug=2 root=/dev/hdg2 hdb=ide-scsi

I had a hunch that it would include debug=2 .. apparently the kernel
doesn't know the debug= parameter and it passes it to init in the
environment. This breaks the /etc/init.d/rc script.

>Most likely this is of course wrong now....
>OK what I did it: I used my older Caldera Grub-boot-loader and put
>
>title = Debian-Raid
>root = (hd2,1)
>kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-Raid hpt366.c vga=normal noapic nosmp debug=2
>root=/dev/hdg2 hdb=ide-scsi
>
>Could it be that the debug-level defined in the menu.lst was causing
>all of this? 

Yes, if you take out debug=2 things will work again.

Mike.
-- 
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