Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3784 mails)

["Karol Pietrzak" <noodlez84@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8 Oct 2001, Trey Gruel wrote:

> 
> i used yast2 to change a couple settings (turned off apm and isapnp) on my
> suse 7.1 pro box and now it won't boot.  i get the error:
> 
> /etc/init.d/boot: .: /etc/rc.config: cannot execute binary file
> 
> and the boot process stops after mounting the /proc and /dev/pts
> filesystems.  the machine is not hung (i can type to my hearts content,
> but it accomplishes nothing) but cannot complete the boot process.
> 
> does anyone know a way around this so i can restore my old rc.config file?


I don't think there's a way to restore it, but try this:
  o at the LILO prompt, put 1 at the end of what you usually 
put, telling Linux to start in runlevel 1, single user mode 
(this should work, almost w/o a doubt)
  o run 'SuSEconfig'.  If there are any errors in your 
/etc/rc.config, the util will probably tell you.  It will also 
commit your changes.
  o reboot in your usual runlevel and see what happens

If that doesn't work, here's something else you should try:
  o mark up and your /etc/rc.config and enable "SuSEconfig" will 
"fix" your config files
  o enable boot logging (IIRC, also in /etc/rc.config)
  o check out /var/log/boot.msg and see what happens.
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