New woody install - INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS"
I just installed woody (from a pile of 1.4M floppies) onto my circa 1994 Intel 486. When trying to boot off the hard drive or off my boot floppy everything looks fine until
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS"
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
INIT: cannot execute "/bin/sh"
(above line repeated 9 more times)
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
At this point the system hangs for about 5 minutes. Then the above "/bin/sh" error displays 10 time and the process repeats.
I started the system using the rescue and root floppies, mounted my partitions, and /etc/init.d/rcS and /etc/init.d/rc seem to be there, with execute permissions set for everyone. I unmounted and e2fsck'd my partitions and they seem to be okay.
What should I try next?
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