--- Mark Farmer <farmorg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:32:27 -0800 (PST), Mike Wooding > <timmywooding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > --- Mark Farmer <farmerma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > OK folks, for the record & for anyone else who gets stuck on > this, I > > > fixed the problem by booting into rescue mode from cd1, chrooted > into > > > > > > /mnt/sysimage and forced a reinstall of init like this: > > ... > > > > Was "init" missing? Corrupted? I.e. what did you see > > that prompted you to reinstall init? > > I'm not sure what was wrong with init to be honest, I checked the > boot > logs of previous sucessfull boots & noted that init was the first > thing that was started after freeing the unused kernel memory, seems > so obvious now I could kick myself as we all know that "init comes > first" right?. Since that seemed to be the part that was failing I > figured reinstalling init would either make or break the situation, > things couldn't get much worse at that point so I went for it & it > payed off :-) Guess that leaves us wondering what would trash init. :-( ===== He who laughs last thinks slowest. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
