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From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Mike <mike@khi.sdnpk.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel @ vger . kernel . org"
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-irda @ pasta . cs . UiT . No" <linux-irda@pasta.cs.UiT.No>
Subject: Re: INIT: No inittab file found
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:48:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010104224837.C1148@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A548636.27C231BA@khi.sdnpk.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A548636.27C231BA@khi.sdnpk.org>; from mike@khi.sdnpk.org on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 15:18:30 +0100


On 2001.01.04 Mike wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am unable to boot my linux. I got the following message during boot.
> 
> ====================================================
> INIT: No inittab file found
> INIT: Can't open(/etc/ioctl.save, O_WRONLY): No such file or directory
> 
> Enter Runlevel:
> =====================================================
> 

Try answering 'single'. That boots into 'single user mode': no
daemons, no try to load inittab. Just a shell to let you check if
there exists an /etc/inittab file.

-- 
J.A. Magallon                                         $> cd pub
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                             $> more beer

Linux werewolf 2.2.19-pre6 #1 SMP Wed Jan 3 21:28:10 CET 2001 i686

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-04 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-04 14:18 INIT: No inittab file found Mike
2001-01-04 21:48 ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
2001-01-05 11:14   ` Mike

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