On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 at 4:09pm (-0000), Patrick Lacchia wrote:
> Guess what? I stupidly added 3 lines to etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. It looked safe,
> you just open the file with gnupad, add the lines, save. Safe until the next
> time you reboot and find out that you can't use RedHat 6.2 anymore. During
> the launch I now have a message saying, "INIT cannot execute
> etc/rc.d/sysinit". I tried several rescue solutions and so far the only one
> that gives me some result is to boot by typing linux emergency. That gives
> me the chance to log as root before INIT (and therefore rc.sysinit) is
> launched. From there I can access the file, edit it with VI but
> unfortunately not save it. The file is read only. I can copy the file on a
> floppy disk and open the copy with Windows notepad but it's useless because
> I can't erase the original on the hard drive. It looks like while in
> emergency mode all the files are read only.
> That's where I need some help:
> - How can I remove the 3 lines I added to rc.sysinit and save the file?
> - Is rc.sysinit corrupted? And if so could I use root/rc.sysinit~ as a
> backup?
> - Is there an alternate solution?
>
> Guys I am stuck so I really need your help.
>
Grrrr... write reply then send. :)
Chances are /etc (or / really) is still mounted read only which is the
default at boot time. Try remounting it read/write which is something
rc.sysinit normally does for you...
bash# mount -o remount,rw /
Then you should be able to save your changes. But becuase you're in a
rescue mode you disk unmounting stuff isn't going to happen either so you
prolly want to safe yourself an fsck and do..
bash# sync
bash# mount -o remount,ro /
... the sync is redundant I think but it can't hurt. :)
M.
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