On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 17:10, Jason Dixon wrote: > 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 > > According to a diff of your inittab against mine, the only change you've > made is this: > > id:1:initdefault: > > This forces init to boot single-user. I've never tried this, so I'm not > sure whether to be surprised or not by the error you're seeing. Change > that line to the following and everything should be ok. If not, you've > hosed something else. > > id:3:initdefault: > > -- > Jason Dixon, RHCE > DixonGroup Consulting > http://www.dixongroup.net > Yeah, that was the last thing I tried. It was set to 3 before that. Any idea what would cause the errors I posted since inittab looks ok? Thanks, James -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
