Re: Locked out of system.... how do I replace a corrupt inittab file?

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From: Ron Gibson
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 00:00

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www@plexus-technologies.com (Dean Malandris) wrote:

>I had a bit of an accident and corrupted the /etc/inittab file in Slackware.
>When I boot the machine now, because of some illegal getttydef declarations
>in the file, it tells me of fatal pids and that there are no more processes

>I have a backup copy called inittab.old in the /etc/ directory, so I can
>replace it and restore the machine if I could only get into it. I made a
>bootdisk on my other Linux box; it boots of /hda3/ and the problem machine
>is /hda2/.

You may have to use a boot disk with a few commands and remove the corrupted
file(rename it is better) and rename inittab.old file.

If you cant do that perhaps you could do a minimal install on another drive so
you can use the shell or use something like MC.

                      email: rgibson@ix.netcom.com

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From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com  (Ron Gibson)
Subject: Re: Locked out of system.... how do I replace a corrupt inittab file?
Date: 1998/08/03
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