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rjmars97
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 Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:59 am Post subject: Error on boot: INIT: No inittab file found [solved cant fix] |
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I have been running a gentoo system for a while now without any issues, but after a reboot today, I have started to get strange errors on boot. I seemed to have the problem describe in this post: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-440069.html but recompiling baselayout did not help. I decided that a filesystem check could be helpful, and thus restarted the machine with | Code: | | sudo shutdown -Fr now |
After the check finished, I now get something worse, in that I cant even get the system up. On boot, it stops at
| Code: | Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
INIT: version 2.86 booting
INIT: No inittab file found
Enter runlevel: |
I can enter a number, but fails no matter what number I choose:
| Code: | Enter renlevel: 3
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel |
At this point, it locks and I can't do anything else. It seems (obviously) that inittab is missing, but could a disk check cause this? Can I boot to the live CD and copy the inittab from another machine over, or is there something else I should do?
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timeBandit
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:51 am Post subject: |
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You may have a corrupt root filesystem. It's rare for a disk check to do this but not unheard of, especially if the filesystem was mounted when checked. It's also possible the real breakage was prior to the reboot and the disk check merely cemented the damage. Either way, the vanished /etc/inittab may be but the first detectable symptom during boot.
I'd boot a LiveCD, mount the root filesystem read-only under /mnt and have a look around. If it looks relatively sound you might try copying in a new /etc/inittab.
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rjmars97
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:42 am Post subject: |
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After looking around the filesystem mounted from the live CD, many things seem to be missing. Both the /etc and /portage folders are not there. So, seems like the filesystem got corrupted... if only I knew how. I did another disk check from the live CD, and it found errors in the Directory Index Table, but fixing them didn't seem to help.
I was using JFS on the partition, which I've been using for a few years now, and this is the first time I've encountered a problem like this, but I suppose all filesystems can get corrupted. My home folder was on a different partition and seems to be unharmed, so not too much of a problem, but a big annoyance when I didn't need one.
Thanks for the help.
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