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INIT: version 2.62 booting

Post by Simon Dayki » Sun, 15 Mar 1998 04:00:00



Dear all.

I have just installed Slackware 3.4 on a 386sx with 4Mb RAM and 40Mb HDD by
putting the HDD in my Main PC to install and then putting back in the 386.
When I boot it works fine till it gets too

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
INIT: version 2.62 booting

Then it hangs.

Is there an easy way to sort this out?  I am nvery new to Linux,  is this a
Kernel problem?  If so could someone tell me where I could get a minium
kernel type thing which just supports the basics a TCP/IP networking with a
ne2000 comp card.  Any idea's

Regards

Simon

 
 
 
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INIT: version 2.62 booting

Post by Rob Gi » Thu, 26 Mar 1998 04:00:00


Hi...


>Dear all.

>I have just installed Slackware 3.4 on a 386sx with 4Mb RAM and 40Mb HDD by
>putting the HDD in my Main PC to install and then putting back in the 386.
>When I boot it works fine till it gets too

>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>INIT: version 2.62 booting

>Then it hangs.

I encountered this error last night myself.  I've been having
a string of bad luck with my Linux box lately.  I've got
RH4.2, kernel 2.0.27.  I tried to apply the patches up to .33
but there were a few hunk problems, mostly related to the
Alpha, but there were others.  Anyway, I reinstalled the .27
source code, had to do "make mrproper" to get around some
ncurses/lxdialog library issue before menuconfig would run
again...

Finally, the .33 kernel was config'd and built, lilo'd...
only to encounter the error above. I thought it was because I
had moduled something which should be builtin (extfs2) but fixing
that didn't help...

So, I'm still at .27.  I think I'll just grab a .33 source
tree! :-(

If anyone knows what this problem is please let us know...

Thanks,
Rob

Quote:>Is there an easy way to sort this out?  I am nvery new to Linux,  is this a
>Kernel problem?  If so could someone tell me where I could get a minium
>kernel type thing which just supports the basics a TCP/IP networking with a
>ne2000 comp card.  Any idea's

>Regards

>Simon

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1. Linux won't boot past "INIT version 2.62 boot" message at bootup

I have been using Linux for a while without booting stright into X-Windows.
I was informed a while back that I could edit or modify a line in my
"inittab" file. The default init was at 3, and I commented out that line
and made an almost identical line, except, I changed it to 4.Ever since I
did this, I am unable to boot into Linux.

My system stops booting after this line:

INIT version 2.62 booting

I have tried everything I could think of.
I tried my LILO BOOT Disk
               Linux Boot Disk with Root Disk
               Simple Boot Disk

I then realized that I needed to change back that line in inittab. I
figured that was where the problem stems from. So I then used RAWRITE.EXE
and made a rescue root disk.

I logged in succefully with this and mounted linux under /mnt, switched to
the /mnt/etc directory and put back the file the way it was with 3 as the
default, saved it, and rebooted.

The same thing happed. Part of the message I got during bootup befor ethe
systems halts on me is:

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 Filesystem) readonly
INIT: version 2.62 booting

Then nothing happens. My systems just stops.....

Can you please help me out, as I do not want to have to re-install Linux
all over again. I have it pretty much configured how I want it.

Anyw help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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