Bootup: cannot execute /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

[VB]

--- Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> VB wrote:
> > --- Chris Hewitt <g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > 
> >>VB wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>I just modified my /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit since
> I've
> >>>been having problems with the 2.6.3 kernel.  Now
> on
> >>>bootup I can't execute the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> >>
> >>file
> >>
> >>>(that's what the kernel tells me on
> >>
> >>bootup)...assuming
> >>
> >>>the file has some syntax error or something, as
> the
> >>>file is executable.
> >>>
> >>>I have a backup of a working copy and the
> "broken"
> >>>copy both on a floppy and on the linux partition,
> >>
> >>how
> >>
> >>>can I boot an alternate /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit? how
> >>
> >>can
> >>
> >>>I verify the correctness of a modified
> >>>/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit? I'm using grub, RH9 and
> FC1.
> >>>
> >>
> >>If you boot from the first installation CD and put
> >>"linux rescue" in at 
> >>the boot prompt you will end up with your linux
> root
> >>system mounted 
> >>under /mnt/sysimage. From there you can swap over
> >>your working and 
> >>non-working /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (which would now
> be
> >>
> >>/mnt/sysimaage/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit).
> >>
> >>Hope this helps
> >>
> >>Chris
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Is there a way I can verify my modified rc.sysinit
> > file? i.e. check if there are syntactic errors?
> 
> Not really.  There's no syntax checker in the manner
> of "perl -c" for
> Bourne (sh) or Bourne Again (bash) scripts.  You
> have to know the
> syntax.
> 
> > If there were syntactic errors, would that cause
> the
> > kernel to tell me it can't execute
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit?
> 
> It depends on what the actual error message is.  Is
> it "no such file"?
> Is it "rc.sysinit:somenumber error message"?  That'd
> be a big help.

A big help follows:
INIT: Cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit"

Now I gotta go rescue linux again...



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