Re: New woody install - INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS"
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:15:24PM -0400, Matt Miller wrote:
> 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?
>
>
Since nobody's given this one a shot, I will risk it :-}.
It sounds like there's a problem with the file permissions. I don't
think /etc/init.d/rcS could execute without the execute permission on
it.
Perhaps you could use a rescue disk to boot up the system. and mount the
root partitions and check on the permissions. The other think to see is
the root mount entry in /etc/fstab.
Hoping this helps,
Andy
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