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? > -What should I do to recover from this scenario? > -Or I have to re-install FC 1? > > Some other questions about FC2: > -Is FC2 stable enough to use as an development > environment? > -What kernel version of FC2? > -Where is the easiest way to get FC2 package for > installation? > > Thanks very much for your help. > > --david le. > Either boot using Roberts suggestion or use rescue mode. Either way, once your booted do the following: Back up the existing (bad) inittab file in case this doesn't work. Get a copy of the initscripts rpm appropriate for your version of Fedora, then run the following: rpm2cpio initscripts-x.y.z.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd ./etc/inittab Check out the new inittab file and compare with the old. If the new one seems sane, copy it to /etc/, reboot, and cross your fingers. Daniel
