Boot inittab problem - Please Help!
My SuSE 8.1 box suffered a power outage, I am now facing the following at the prompt as it tries to boot: -------------------------------------------- INIT: version 2.0 booting INIT: /etc/inittab[1]: id field too long (max 4 characters) INIT: /etc/inittab[2]: id field too long (max 4 characters) INIT: /etc/inittab[3]: id field too long (max 4 characters) Enter runlevel: -------------------------------------------- I have tried to enter 1 and 3 for the run level, and all I get is the following: -------------------------------------------- Enter runlevel: 3 INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel -------------------------------------------- How do I get past this problem? I was thinking of popping in a knoppix cd and mounting my root partitiom /dev/hda3 read write to see if something is wrong in my /etc/inittab is there an easier way I can get around this problem? -- thanks, Ahbaid
Ahbaid Gaffoor
I am now facing the following at the prompt as it tries to boot: I was thinking of popping in a knoppix cd and mounting my root partitiom /dev/hda3 read write to see if something is wrong in my /etc/inittab
is there an easier way I can get around this problem?
Nope. Your only chance is booting from another media like a knoppix CD or the rescue system from the SuSE CDs and then try to repair the system. Philipp
Okay. I got the knoppix cd going and it looks as though the /etc/inittab has been hosed... it has a bunch of garbled characters in it... Can someone please email me a copy of an /etc/inittab? I can at least use that to get the box going (with some editing). I am using SuSE 8.1 Pro. for now I will see what I can do using knoppix's /etc/inittab many thanks Ahbaid. Philipp Thomas wrote:
Ahbaid Gaffoor
[Fri, 30 May 2003 10:27:46 -0500]: I am now facing the following at the prompt as it tries to boot: I was thinking of popping in a knoppix cd and mounting my root partitiom /dev/hda3 read write to see if something is wrong in my /etc/inittab
is there an easier way I can get around this problem?
Nope. Your only chance is booting from another media like a knoppix CD or the rescue system from the SuSE CDs and then try to repair the system.
Philipp
Boot system and append this to the line:
init=/bin/bash
That will allow you to boot directly into a bash shell.
Looks like your /etc/inittab is fragged... Here's mine from 8.1
#
# /etc/inittab
#
# Copyright (c) 1996-2002 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany. All rights
reserved.
#
# Author: Florian La Roche
My SuSE 8.1 box suffered a power outage,
I am now facing the following at the prompt as it tries to boot:
-------------------------------------------- INIT: version 2.0 booting INIT: /etc/inittab[1]: id field too long (max 4 characters) INIT: /etc/inittab[2]: id field too long (max 4 characters) INIT: /etc/inittab[3]: id field too long (max 4 characters)
Enter runlevel: --------------------------------------------
I have tried to enter 1 and 3 for the run level, and all I get is the following:
-------------------------------------------- Enter runlevel: 3 INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel --------------------------------------------
How do I get past this problem?
I was thinking of popping in a knoppix cd and mounting my root partitiom /dev/hda3 read write to see if something is wrong in my /etc/inittab
is there an easier way I can get around this problem?
--
thanks,
Ahbaid
participants (4)
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Ahbaid Gaffoor
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Carlos E. R.
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Pagan
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Philipp Thomas