>I hope someone can help me with my dilemma. After using Win95 for a
>while, I tried to boot RH 6.2 but is stops right after 'Freeing unused
>kernel memory: 64k freed' and gives the error:
>
>Warning: Unable to open an initial console.
>Kernel Panic: No init found.
>
>
>Upon looking at the dirs and files on the disk with bash, I find that
>several critical dirs (rc.d, ppp, etc.) have been changed to links! This
>is indicated by the bash color option being enabled and bright green
>seems to be the color used to indicate links. Of course, if /etc/rc.d is
>a link then the init files located in it's various subdirs are not
>available, so it won't boot.
>
>So how can I edit the flags to change the links back to dirs? Which
>editor will allow me to look at and change the flags of a file/dir?
>Everything worked fine before for a few months until this happened, so I
>know everything is there and usable. Is there a way to reset the flags
>and then protect them from being changed again except by root?
Excuse me, but if the boot fails, how were you able to start up a
shell session and look at the file systems?
They aren't "flags." If you do a "ls -la /etc/rc.d" you'll see where the
link points. It wasn't a "flag" that changed the situation, the filesystem
was restructured. Please find a Unix book that explains file systems,
it will help you understand your problem.
BTW, you may have worse problems, as init is supposed to be in /sbin.
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