jmanjeff Posted September 1, 2004 Report Share Posted September 1, 2004 Ok i was going to update my nivida drives so i set in Mcc for it not to start up X on boot But no boot up i get as far as Init: no inittab file found Enter run level: what do i do mandrake 10 Official Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted September 1, 2004 Report Share Posted September 1, 2004 3 run level 3 will boot you to cli, 5 is for graphical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmanjeff Posted September 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2004 no matter what number i put in i get Init: no more processes left in this run level then it just hangs there where is the inittab file located at so i can try and find it and see what is up with it Thanks what better way to learn to fix it but you have to break it first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmanjeff Posted September 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2004 Ok i booted from the CD and looked in /etc/ There is no inittab file there is there a way to reinstall that file and no i do not have a backup :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted September 2, 2004 Report Share Posted September 2, 2004 Before you continue, did you chroot /mnt after booting from the CD? Booting from the CD gives you a /MNT folder that contains all your hard drive folder, so you can find your /etc folder at /mnt/etc or you can immediately type chroot /mnt which changes the root location to /mnt (rendering it invisible). Afterwards, you can type cd /etc Just check this before you assume its gone.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmanjeff Posted September 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2004 I did as you siad MadDog and it not there and i booted up Knoppix and looked that way and it is gone :( Will the one that i get from Knoppix be the same if so how do i replace it if not can it be recreate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmanjeff Posted September 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 Fixed for any one that has this problem. What you need to do is. Find your initscripts*.rpm file and put it some where that you can get from the rescue command prompt say /mnt/somedirectory/ . boot from CD1 and F1 and type rescue mount your file system as /mnt then return to the command prompt and then do a chroot /mnt/somedirectory/ then cd mnt/somederectory/ then rpm -Uvh initscripts*.rpm –force --nosignature Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zoetosis Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Fixed for any one that has this problem. What you need to do is. Find your initscripts*.rpm file and put it some where that you can get from the rescue command prompt say /mnt/somedirectory/ . boot from CD1 and F1 and type rescue mount your file system as /mnt then return to the command prompt and then do a chroot /mnt/somedirectory/ then cd mnt/somederectory/ then rpm -Uvh initscripts*.rpm –force --nosignature <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have this very same problem. Its a long story but basically a previous employee installed mandrake 8.3 but before he left didn't ensure that any other employees knew something about it in case of a problem. I know absolutely nothing about linux but found this thread from a google search. I have basic questions like: 1. Where will I find the initscripts*.rpm file? 2. If I can't boot the machine how do i put the said file to /mnt/somedirectory/ Is it possible for someone to give a version of the above steps that a complete linux dummy such as myself can understand. Thanx Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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