I have no idea how, but I have somehow broken my MDK install on my laptop.  

First, upon booting, a couple times in a row, hardware detect would find my "NEW" (not 
really) scd0 device and tell me that my DVD-Rom was no longer there.  The device is a 
CD-RW/DVD-Rom, and has been there the whole time.  

Next, there were some problems with samba drives not mounting, which turned out to be 
due to a "missing" NIC.  The DrakConnect wizard would find and identify the card, but 
I could not configure it.  

I was also getting errors at boot about / having under 200mb of avail space.  I then 
attempted to configure lilo to empty /tmp (which was 1.7 GIG) on boot.  It would not 
allow me to write the new lilo to the MBR.  I then proceeded to manually empty /tmp.  
I think this caused at least some problems. 

Somehow in this lilo.conf became an empty file.  

># cat /etc/lilo.conf
>#

And now, when booting, inittab is not found.  It asks me to enter a run level, and I 
type 5 and press <ENTER>.  Then I am told that there are no more processes for this 
run level.  And the machine just sits there.  



Anyone have any ideas how I can at least figure out what happened, even if it's not 
really fixable?  

TIA
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David Steiner
www.DavidLSteiner.com
Proud Linux User #262493
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