Hello Jerry,
> 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.
Wow, this sounds weird! Your filesystem is really messed up somehow. Have you
been accessing (writing) your filesystem from Windos (explore2fs)?
The bright green usually indicates executables, so your directories have
somehow changed to executables. Try running [e2]fsck from your maintainance
installation. Maybe it will repair the directories. You might want to make a
backup of the entire device with dd before applying any changes.
> Is there a way to reset the flags
You could of course try using a disk editor, or a tool like debugfs, but then
you really have to know what you are doing...
> and then protect them from being changed again except by root?
Directories are never changed into normal files under normal operation.
Something seriously went wrong on your system. Even root should not be able to
change directories into files (directly).
Hope this helps,
Leonard.
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