[Solved] System cannot find inittab at boot

Question

I just installed a fresh, brand-new Arch 64-bit install on an older PC, but on reboot, Arch can't find the "inittab" file.
Specifically, I get this error:
INIT: no inittab file found
Enter runlevel:
And whether I enter init 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, or whatever, it always replys:
INIT: Entering runlevel x
INIT: No processes left in this runlevel
In my Ubuntu 9.04 CD, I can clearly see that "inittab" exists in /etc and I can open it and read it.  So why can't Arch find it?  I didn't have this problem on my previous installation.
Since I don't know what info you guys need in order to aid me, I'll simply note a few things:
#1) My filesystem
sda5        /               ext4               10.0 GiB
sda6        /boot         ext2                1.0 GiB
sda7        /etc           ext4                1.0 GiB
sda8        /home       ext4             130.0 GiB
sda9        /tmp          ext4              10.0 GiB
sda10      /usr           ext4              20.0 GiB
sda11      /var          ext4              10.0 GiB
sda12      swap      linux-swap          4.7 GiB
#2) Hardware
Gateway GE614 desktop tower
MSI-6741 motherboard
AMD Athlon64 Processor 3400+ (single-core @ 2.3 GHz)
2 GiB DDR ram
Sapphire ATi RadeonHD 3650
#3) GRUB
Grub's root is defined as "hda (0,5)" which I believe is referring to sda6, or /boot
Last edited by Darkfire Fox (2009-10-21 21:10:56)

Answer 1

D'oh!
I see my error now.  I'll have to modify my filesystem.  But still, why does the Arch installer allow you to select /etc as a mount point if it will cause so much trouble?  /usr and /var had to be specified under "custom mount point", but /etc was actually selectable from the list. Oh well, I'll just avoid it from now on.
Solved.
Last edited by Darkfire Fox (2009-10-21 21:10:22)