When you boot the computer, you should pay close attention to the boot up messages. There should be something about the root filesystem being mounted (or mounting failed).
If that doesn't prove useful, boot a rescue disk, mount the / partition by hand, and see if /etc/inittab exists. Also, have you Googled? Pete On Thu 24 Aug 06, 10:24 AM, Hai Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thanks, Peter: > > When I typed "1", it says: > > INIT: no more process left in this runlevel > > The system is still respondent when I hit the keyboard but just they > are just complaint about my random hitting, which doesn't help. :-) > > Hai > > > On 8/24/06, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed 23 Aug 06, 8:58 PM, Hai Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Hello, > >> > >> My debian Linux had been running fine until one day when I restarted > >> the computer, it failed to boot. The error message is as follows: > >> > >> .... > >> INIT: version 2.86 booting > >> INIT: No inittab file found > >> > >> Enter runlevel: > >> > >> I didnt know what I should enter and stuck at this stage. > >> > >> Can anyone help so I dont re-install the whole thing? :-) > >> > >> Thanks a lot, > >> Hai > > > >Hello, Hai. > > > >Try entering "1". What happens? > > > >When the boot messages scroll, do you see any messages saying that / is > >being mounted? > > > >pete > > > >-- > >The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a > >digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the > >top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to > >demean the Buddha, which is to demean oneself. -- Robert M. Pirsig > > > >Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p > >PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > >_______________________________________________ > >vox-tech mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha, which is to demean oneself. -- Robert M. Pirsig Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
