Hi, On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Preston Glidden wrote:

After a system crash, my system gets as far as this message:

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

and stops. There is no error message anywhere in the boot process that I can see. As i'm still a linux newbie, I'm not familiar enough with the boot process to know how to proceed. Any suggestions/pointers?

Seems your /sbin/init has been trashed. Try copying it over from the rescue system. Also check for /etc/inittab

TIA, Presto

P.S. A clue may be that I only could get this far by running e2fsck from the rescue system.

Had the e2fsck to move files into lost+found? -o) Hubert /\\ _\_v - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e