[Gllug] Init not Found

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kim Hawtin [mailto:kim at aldigital.co.uk]
> 
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:56:01AM -0000, Jackson, Harry wrote:
> > I got a bit of a scare this morning with the following message.
> > 
> > "Init not found"
> 
> it might pay to familiarise yourself with your /etc/lilo.conf
> and /etc/inittab, and what the values for these things mean.

Sorry I forgot to say I a running Grub. 

Init is the Devil and everything is spawned from it and innittab is the
config file that it uses. It is also where I put the initdefault runlevel
for my system (Bruce showed me that one). Correct me if I am wrong but it
runs through your initdefault "rc" directory "S"tarting and "K"illing
directories depending on the links in there. Then the rc.sysinit file will
run through configuring everything else. This is why I wondered when I seen
the message as if it cannot run init then I am buggered.   

> 
> just out of interest, what file system are you running?
> 
> and what does RH 7.2 install by default?

Running ext2 and what I meant by default is that I have not upgraded
anything on the system its just a basic 7.2 install with the KDE that comes
with it.

I know that the login hangs are miles away from init but could a hard disk
failure being imminent cause anything like this. Also at what point does
rc.local get run.

Harry


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