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" > (above line repeated 9 more times) > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > At this point the system hangs for about 5 minutes. Then the above "/bin/sh" > error displays 10 time and the process repeats. > > I started the system using the rescue and root floppies, mounted my > partitions, and /etc/init.d/rcS and /etc/init.d/rc seem to be there, with > execute permissions set for everyone. I unmounted and e2fsck'd my partitions > and they seem to be okay. > > What should I try next? > >
Since nobody's given this one a shot, I will risk it :-}. It sounds like there's a problem with the file permissions. I don't think /etc/init.d/rcS could execute without the execute permission on it. Perhaps you could use a rescue disk to boot up the system. and mount the root partitions and check on the permissions. The other think to see is the root mount entry in /etc/fstab. Hoping this helps, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
