From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:49:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:49:02 -0500 Received: from jalon.able.es ([212.97.163.2]:2557 "EHLO jalon.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:48:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:48:37 +0100 From: "J . A . Magallon" To: Mike Cc: "linux-kernel @ vger . kernel . org" , "linux-irda @ pasta . cs . UiT . No" Subject: Re: INIT: No inittab file found Message-ID: <20010104224837.C1148@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: <3A548636.27C231BA@khi.sdnpk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <3A548636.27C231BA@khi.sdnpk.org>; from mike@khi.sdnpk.org on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 15:18:30 +0100 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.0.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/