Bumps on the road to systemd --no inittab [solved]

Hey guys,
I felt comfortable enough with the systemd wiki instructions to uninstall initscripts, but when I rebooted, the system complained that there was no inittab, and asked for a runlevel. I tried to enable multi-user.service, and a couple other things, but was only able to boot when I put the init=/path/to/systemd line back in menu.1st.
I'd like to boot right into runlevel 5--I created the example xinit.service from the wiki page, and it worked, but anyway-- I'm going to stop now and hope I'm missing something obvious. If necessary I'll update this post with something more coherent in the morning.
thanks
Last edited by scrawler (2012-10-11 22:53:11)

I think there's a symlink from init to systemd needed somewhere, but having not done that I'm not sure how you'd get that, its in some systemd-related package or other.

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Greetings. Lifelong Mac user here who, in the wake of Jobs’ passing, retrieved my Color Classic from the attic, thinking it would surely boot right up. It worked as recently as maybe 4-5 years ago, but all attempts over the past month to successfully boot it up have been in vain. After one purchase from Radio Shack and three from eBay, I’m 99 percent done throwing any more money at it. But I’d like to see if any of you could maybe help me out before I give up the ghost. I don’t have long, since I’ll need to return the internal HD I just bought off eBay soon if I want a refund. Here’s the rundown:
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The Color Classic is pretty straight forward to work on because the motherboard is just a matter of pulling it out.
But I don't think it's a bad motherboard so that is the good news. Sounds like the original hard drive died but before you toss it try seeing if it is just a matter of the heads being stuck. Take it in hand and gently swish it back and forth a few times to see if it that will unstick the heads. If you had a clean room I would say open the drive and gently turn the platters than zip it back up and see if it will work.
The "new' hard drive you bought sounds like it is pooched as those clicking sounds are usually an indication of a bad drive so return it ASAP for a working one or a refund. But just in case if you look at your old hard drive does it have terminators on it, they will look like two long black strips with multiple prongs attaching them to the motherboard of the hard drive. Now look at the new one, does it have any or a place for them? Though my memory is foggy on SCSI drives but that 700 might have a jumper instead but that could be wrong.
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