At 03:34 AM 08/29/2000 -0400, you 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. 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?
It may not be quite that simple. Sounds like you have some corruption from
some event. IF you have any important data in the 62 installation, back it
up and try a new installation to the same partition.
Mark
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