Thank's for your reply! On Tuesday 21 November 2000 15:16, Chris Spencer wrote: > > On November 21, 2000 07:27 am, you wrote: > > I am new to the Mandrake system but an experienced Linux user (SuSE, > > Caldera), I made two successful installations of Mandrake 7.2 and it > > worked perfectly. But now when I try to make a new installation the > > installation itself seems to work perfectly but on reboot everything just > > stops and the system hangs when trying to initiate with the > > /etc/re.sysinit file, all it's calls get the reply 'Permission Denied' > > and then everything stops. > > Probably unrelated, but the only time I have ever had a problem with > Mandrake hanging during the boot sequence when I turned on hard drive > optimizations during the install. I didn't do that. > > What you could do is boot from the install CD, select the expert > installation and go through the install until you get to the disk > partitioning section. Hit alt-ctrl-f2 to get to a prompt, mount your root > partition under /mnt, then chroot to /mnt. Then, make sure /etc/rc.sysinit > is a symbolic link to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and ensure the permissions on it > are -rwxr-xr-x root root. Hmmm...sounds like an interesting alternative, I'll try that one too. > > Never heard of this happening before. Good luck... Me neither and I install different Linux dists several times a week. > > -Chris Cheers, ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@
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