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Re: New woody install - INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS"



On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 23:56, Andy Saxena wrote:
> 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"

Missed the beginning of the thread, but this would be a very serious
problem.

WTF happened to /bin/sh on your system? Boot with the rescue disk and
find out.

anthony@bohr:anthony$ ls -l /bin/sh 
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Apr 22 01:24 /bin/sh -> bash
anthony@bohr:anthony$ ls -l /bin/bash 
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       511400 Apr  8 15:07 /bin/bash


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