On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 09:17, James Pifer wrote: > I have a Redhat 9 system that I have totally screwed up inittab and > runlevel to where it will not boot correctly now. I was trying to change > it from default initlevel 5 to 3. Not sure if I didn't give it enough > time or what, but now it's hosed. > > When it boots I get: > INIT: /etc/inittab[8]: missing action field > (same line repeats with 19,22,30,33,39,42,43, and 51) > Cannot execute /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit > > I booted into rescue mode but didn't know what to even do. > > Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Any help is appreciated. Email me directly with a copy of your inittab. I'll diff it and tell you what's broken. Do *not* post attachments to the list. -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list