On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 06:48 -0800, David Le wrote: > > Dear Linux gurus, > > > > I'm new to Fedora at system level and encountered the > > following problem with inittab file: > > When I was as root, I accidentally copied the inittab > > file, which is for my target hardware, over the > > innittab file of my host PC running Fedora Core 1. > > Now after I re-boot my PC, it stops at the following > > messages: > > inittab: missing field > > Enter run level: > > > > -How can I recover completely from my invalid inittab > > file? > > Someone who knows how, can edit it. I'm minutes from my blood- > pressure medicine from putting me to sleep, or I'd ssh in there and > un- mangle it. i'm pretty sure that, at the grub prompt, you can edit the kernel line and append the string "init=/bin/sh", which will bypass the init process entirely and come up with a simple shell. after that, you're on your own. rday
