Re: HELP! can't boot--Permission denied
booting a rescue system or something like that from a cd (or
floppy), mounting your (not booting) hard drive and checking the
permissions might help.
On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, pierre wrote:
> Hello
> My 2.2 box was working fine until yesterday.
> Now when i start it up,via hd and/or boot floppy, it loads lilo, goes
> through some of its startup sequence, detects the hard drives,and
> then it hangs with about 15 lines of Permission denied.
>
> /etc/init.d/rcS: /bin/grep: Permission denied
> /etc/init.d/rcS: /dev/null: Permission denied
> blah
> blah
> blah
> blah
> blah
> blah
> blah
> blah
> blah
> /etc/init.d/rcS: /bin/run-parts: Permission denied
>
> It does not go any further. I can only think of
> 2 things i did recently:
>
> 1)Yesterday I reformatted (with linux cfdisk) the mswindows
> partition of my drive (hda1) to make more room for linux as i no
> longer need windows.
>
> 2)I also set up a 2nd pc with debian and exported its entire
> filesystem (via nfs) to the 2.2 box .
>
> Does anybody know what happened and how i can get back into
> my pc?
> Thanks
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