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- From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
- Subject: Re: Am I Dead? Erased Inittab Problem!
- Message-ID: <ins217t.721954433@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Keywords: inittab
- Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <Nov.13.17.37.13.1992.3647@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:53:53 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- ktompkin@pilot.njin.net (Ken Tompkins) writes:
-
- >In trying to install Steve Robbins gettyps203, I got into an endless uugetty
- >loop. In my panic and with the screen rolling out of control, I either
- >erased/mv-ed inittab. Now linux won't boot because it can't find
- >inittab. Tell me that there is a way around this and that my linux hasn't
- >died.
-
- Yeah, did this myself...
- uugetty uses a different syntax to getty..
- ie. ..........:/bin/uugetty -t60 modem 2400
- NOT 2400 modem
-
- !!!!!!
-
- Fortunately I had Norton's DiskEditor handy on the DOS 8-( Partition
- and went searching for my inittab file, commented out the uugetty line so I
- could boot again...
-
- You can still get there if you have a boot disk and root disk around
- (if not, GET ONE !!!!!!! Just get HJ's Bootable rootdisk, or one of the
- countless others floating around, and boot of them, mount your hard disk
- root filesystem onto /mnt, and restore your inittab...
-
-
- Enjoy !
-
- Cos !
- --
- Andrew J. Cosgriff ! ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
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