inittab missing, what do I do?
CRRoot at dstsystems.com
CRRoot at dstsystems.com
Thu Apr 20 18:28:23 CDT 2000
OK gurus, here's the situation. I had my dual boot PC running under Linux
the other night, when my wife called me away to do something. I locked the
machine and walked away, expecting to be gone momentarily. Well, I never
got back to it that night and by the time I got home last night, the power
had been knocked out due to the storm.
Now, we all know that improperly exiting Linux is a Bad Thing. But I'd had
this happen before and thought I knew what to do. When it could not
successfully boot up and prompted me for the root password, I signed on and
entered
fsck /dev/hda5
and answered "y" to all the questions. Then I rebooted, and it seemed to
be setting up okay until it displayed a line to the effect that "inittab is
missing. Select a runlevel". No matter what runlevel I choose, it
tells me that "There are no more processes running at that level".
My questions are: What do I do to fix this? and What should I have done
in the first place to avoid this?
Obviously I could have shut all the way down the other night, but after
hearing so much about the legendary stability of Linux I thought it would
be alright for a day.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Cory
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