On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, pm wrote about, inittab:
> HI.
> Somebody messed around with my X server and now I have a graphical login
> (RedHat 6.0 - kernel 2.2.5) which doesn't work and respawns itself with
> CTRL-ALT-DELETE.
> So I can't use Linux.
> In the past I've come around that by editing /etc/inittab through a
> rescue disk, but this time, every time I edit it and reboot,
> /etc/inittab gets restored back as it was before editing it.
> During the boot I can read something like this:
> "INIT: booting inittab version 2.77
> INIT: missing action in line [58]"
>
> p
That sounds like the device is mounted read-only, which will not allow you
to do editing.
I would imagen line 58 would be something like;
c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
Have you tryed booting via lilo and typing at the lilo prompt.
linux 1
Where linux is the name of your image.
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