Jerry Human wrote:
> Hello Good People:
>
> 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.
On my RH6.2 system bright green is used to indicate executable files. This
is indeed a flag but setting a dir to executable will not turn it green but
allow the user,group or others to access files in the directory. Your
install appears to have not gone well. I would try again unless one of the
gurus comes up with something soon. BTW links are cyan.
Bret
> 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?
>
> Thank you.
>
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