On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Mike wrote:
> I am unable to boot my linux. I got the following message during boot.
> 
> ====================================================
> INIT: No inittab file found
> INIT: Can't open(/etc/ioctl.save, O_WRONLY): No such file or directory
> 
> Enter Runlevel:
> =====================================================

Your inittab is missing. This means /sbin/init can not set up your system
properly. Quite how to fix it is hard to tell beforehand (other than that
you need a /etc/inittab... I hope you didn't make /etc a separate
filesystem!), but you can boot up into a sort-of-single-user rescue
capable mode by adding "init=/bin/sh" to your kernel's command line (LILO
prompt, GRUB kernel line, syslinux kernel prompt, loadlin command line
etc). This will cause the kernel to run /bin/sh, your default shell, on
the console. You'll probably want to remount / readwrite, fix the problem,
remount / readonly again, and type "xxec /sbin/init".
(remounting is done using "mount -o remount,rw /")

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