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Re: Help! Boot script doesn't run



In article <[🔎] 19971013170139.19808@cfw.com>,
Victor Torrico <vtorrico@cfw.com> wrote:
>I was installing the latest hamm/hamm sysvinit and also have file-rc
>installed.

Oh - oh ...

>The /etc/init.d/boot script doesn't run.  None of the file systems are
>mounted upon boot.  That is the / filesystem is mounted read only but it and
>the other filesytems are never mounted writable.  What starts the /etc/init.d/boot
>script?  /etc/runlevel.conf seems OK.  Runlevel 2 doesn't work correctly.
>
>I'm dead in the water now.
>
>Help sincerely appreciated.

For everybody that has this problem, try the following:

o Boot with the "-b" option on the LILO command line
o At the shell prompt, enter "mount -n -o remount,rw /"
o edit /etc/inittab
** Write down how the entry with /etc/init.d/boot looks now, I
   really would like to know that!
o change the "/etc/init.d/boot" to "/etc/init.d/rcS" so that it looks like

   si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS

o Save and exit
o Type "mount -n -o remount,ro /"
o Enter "reboot -f"

Now the system should boot again.

I'll upload a fixed sysvinit tommorow morning. In the mean time, do NOT
install sysvinit-2.72 !

PS: please read the line with `**' again and mail me !

Mike.
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