On 97/10/13 at 23:15 PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Victor Torrico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I was installing the latest hamm/hamm sysvinit and also have file-rc > >installed. > > Oh - oh ... > > >The /etc/init.d/boot script doesn't run. None of the file systems are > >mounted upon boot. That is the / filesystem is mounted read only but it and > >the other filesytems are never mounted writable. What starts the > >/etc/init.d/boot > >script? /etc/runlevel.conf seems OK. Runlevel 2 doesn't work correctly. > > > >I'm dead in the water now. > > > >Help sincerely appreciated. > > For everybody that has this problem, try the following: > > o Boot with the "-b" option on the LILO command line > o At the shell prompt, enter "mount -n -o remount,rw /" > o edit /etc/inittab > ** Write down how the entry with /etc/init.d/boot looks now, I > really would like to know that!
--------------------------------------------------------- The entry before changing the /etc/inittab file is: si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS I changed this to: si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/boot Also the installation of sysvinit 0.72 had actually deleted the /etc/init.d/boot file. I copied /etc/init.d/boot.OLD to /etc/init.d/boot to restore the file. This and going from .../rcS to .../boot fixed the problem. To test I reinstalled sysvinit 0.72 and the /etc/inittab entry went back to: si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS Also the /etc/init.d/boot file once again was deleted. --------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your kindness in helping. Regards, Victor > o change the "/etc/init.d/boot" to "/etc/init.d/rcS" so that it looks like > > si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS > > o Save and exit > o Type "mount -n -o remount,ro /" > o Enter "reboot -f" > > Now the system should boot again. > > I'll upload a fixed sysvinit tommorow morning. In the mean time, do NOT > install sysvinit-2.72 ! > > PS: please read the line with `**' again and mail me ! > > Mike. > -- > Miquel van | Cistron Internet Services -- Alphen aan den Rijn. > Smoorenburg, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cistron.nl/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it. > -- Victor Torrico ------ Wildflower Hill, Head Waters, Virginia ------ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .