Re: INIT: No inittab file found

J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:48:37 +0100

On 2001.01.04 Mike wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am unable to boot my linux. I got the following message during boot.
>
> ====================================================
> INIT: No inittab file found
> INIT: Can't open(/etc/ioctl.save, O_WRONLY): No such file or directory
>
> Enter Runlevel:
> =====================================================
>

Try answering 'single'. That boots into 'single user mode': no
daemons, no try to load inittab. Just a shell to let you check if
there exists an /etc/inittab file.

-- 
J.A. Magallon                                         $> cd pub
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                             $> more beer


Linux werewolf 2.2.19-pre6 #1 SMP Wed Jan 3 21:28:10 CET 2001 i686


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