[Solved]Inittab file mysteriously disappears

As the title says, my inittab file is gone, making me unable to boot into...anything. It does ask me for a run level, only to return "No more processes on this level".
Can someone post their inittab file so I can make a new one? Or know a way to recover it?
Last edited by JerichoKru (2010-02-08 15:00:47)

ngoonee wrote:
Are you using a journalling file-system without sufficient caching? Did you experience a hard crash?
And please give details on 'slightly further', it may not be the only thing affected.
I'm using rieserfs and all was fine until a reboot.
As I said in my first post, since inittab was missing, it would ask for a runlevel and return with
INIT: No more processes in this runlevel
no matter which one I pick.
Re-adding the inittab made it stop asking for a runlevel but errors:
INIT: version 2.86 booting
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.sysinit"
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.multi"
Id "c1" respawned to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Id "c3" respawned to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Id "c5" respawned to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Id "c4" respawned to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Id "c6" respawned to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Id "c2" respawned to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes on this runlevel
I figured something strange was going on when I noticed my rc.config got wiped...not sure how...thankfully I had a backup of that.
The hard drive is fine, since Windows has no issues.
Last edited by JerichoKru (2010-02-08 05:11:31)

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