[Gllug] Init not Found

[Huw Lynes]

On Tuesday 08 January 2002 12:10, Jackson, Harry wrote:
> > -----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.
>
> 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.

It is probably worth booting of a rescue cd/floppy and having a look at
your root filesystem. See if you can actually see the init binary. It's
always possible that a filesystem corruption or flaky hard-drive have
trashed the link to init. We have had cases where files have vanished
from ide drives and a couple of days later the drive goes bye-bye.


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