I booted one of our sles 8 systems manually this afternoon for the first time in a long time. This system is usually booted by VM during an ipl. During the boot process the system displayed the following messages: INIT: /etc/inittab: missing id field INIT: /etc/inittab: id field too long (max 4 characters)
INIT: cannot execute "/usr/sbin/getty" INIT: Id "cons" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Dec 11 21:30:54 suse80 kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Dec 11 21:30:54 suse80 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-65 Can anyone shed some light on any of these for me please? Is there any documentation on what the format is for the inittab file, or what the contents should look like? I found a couple of lines that I think are from one of my users trying to install something, and these lines are followed by what looks like a comment, only the comment line does not have a # sign at the beginning The "cannot execute /usr/sbin/getty" message is comming out over and over endlessly. I checked, and there is no file called getty in /usr/sbin, and this command appears more than once in /etc/inittab. I'm getting a whole slew of "modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-xx" type message, but all the disk that are defined in the VM directory and in zipl.conf are available and error free, so why the modprobe messages? Thank you Sue Sivets -- Suzanne Sivets Systems Programmer Innovation Data Processing 275 Paterson Ave Little Falls, NJ 07424-1658 973-890-7300 Fax 973-890-7147 [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
