Inittab not found

Ouphe · n00b Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 20

After a reboot I noticed that every I program started would spit out some error message regarding my root disk /dev/hdb3
I checked the drive with fsck, it gave a *lot* of error messages regaring i-nodes. I restarted fsck with the option -y (yes to everything)

Now my sys boots up till a certain point and then gives the errormessage Cannot find inittab. Afterwards I have to start some runlevel but this always freezes the pc.
When I try to chroot to /dev/hdb3 from a livecd the sys gives the error message that it's not a directory (this would work before) It's also possible to view the contents of /dev/hdb3 with a little program I run under Windows, it seems intact.

Howto fix this?

AstralStorm · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:15 pm Post subject:

You've got yourself a damaged partition.
If it happend not because of a crash or power loss, your HDD may be damaged. (maybe just one block in a bad place like inode tree got replaced...)

Anyway, you can't chroot to /dev/hdb3, you have to mount the partition first!

You have two options:
1) from LiveCD run fsck -f --fix /dev/hdb3 (partition must be unmounted), maybe it will work.
2) Backup what you can and reinstall.