...and _understood_, that is the important thing. Sorry for the noise about initscripts, but the responsible was the removal of /dev/null. In my case it gave this weird behaviour:
- update-menus removed /dev/null - some other thing, or even shutdown scripts, tried to do a > /dev/null and created /dev/null as a _REGULAR FILE_, instead of a device one - on reboot (with lilo configured with read-only for root), initscripts could not write to a regular file on a read-only partition. There was no problem on writing to a _DEVICE FILE_ on a read-only volume. Killing my dev/null and creating a new one with MAKEDEV solved the boot. Just for reference, if it serves for somebody... TIA -- J.A. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Software is like sex: werewolf.able.es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 9.0 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.4.20-pre5-jam2 (gcc 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk))
