On Tuesday 21 November 2000 16:51, civileme wrote: > Well, if you have SuSE installed, One harddisk: IDE 13GB; 1) /hda1 Win98 on 2,7GB, 2) /boot 38MB (Mandrake) 3) /boot 46MB (SuSE) 4) /hda5 SuSE 7.0 on 5,4GB 5) /hda6 swap 133MB 6) /hda7 swap 133MB 7) /hda8 Mandrake 4,4GB >then > a) mount the mandrake root partition on some /mnt/tmproot directory you > create in SuSE. > b) cd /mnt/tmproot/etc > c) ls -l rc.sysinit > /home/yourusername/cfile > d) cat rc.sysinit >> /home/yourusername/cfile > Does this mean that I should make a symbolic link to my user account? In that case why? What is this 'cfile'? > of course if it doesn't mount, you may have set up a separate partition > for /etc which cannot be done in most distros of linux, since /etc/fstab > MUST be available when root directory is mounted so the others may be > mounted. I tried that and reproduced your freeze, but it may not be a > faithful reproduction. > > If you are NOT seeing at least a welcome with 'hit I for interactive > startup' as part of the message, then rc.sysinit isn't even starting. Well, how could it then get 'Permission Denied' as a reply on all it's initiations? > > There are a couple of other causes that may be there. If you can get to > the script from SuSE, What sript? Yes I can wander around in Mandrake from SuSE. > then drop a few echo instructions into the file, > like > > echo "1" > > .. > .. #some script code here > .. > > echo "2" > > and we may be able to narrow it to the offending app. > > If rc.sysinit is set with permissions that do not allow root to write, > your problem might be reproduced that way. rwxr-xr-x root root for the rc.sysinit file and the symbolic link is there: rc.sysinit->rc.d/rcsysinit > > Civileme > I noticed one thing different in the fstab file compared to the SuSE fstab, in Drake I read: /dev/hda8 / ext2 noauto,user,rw 1 1 which looks a bit weird to me, in SuSE it's: /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 I don't know if this is of importance but I've changed this in the Drake file and now I'm gonna try to boot it. Down to the basement again! ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@
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