Re: Help, messed up innitab file!!

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From: Scott E. Young
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 00:00

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Krzysztof Wilczynski wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
>         I messaed up my innitab file, I cannot boot because of this. I know
> exactly what I did wrong, but I have no way of accessing the Linux
> partition through OS/2 or Windows. I also tried boot disk, but no dice- is
> there anyway to not use the default innitab and boot? Thanks for any help
> 
> --
> Krzysztof Wilczynski

Use a root disk created by slackware's install kit or some other method
to boot with. The mount your linux partition ontu /mnt. Then if the root
disk has an editor you can fix inittab, otherwise copy the inittab file
from the root floppy to the /mnt/etc dir.

This worked for me just last week. Good luck!
Scott Young

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Date: 1996/10/12
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