Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:29:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: Jason McKay <jmckay@argo.net.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP!!!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980701091240.2361A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19980701062925.006a17f8@argo.net.au>
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> With out notice one of our main computers running FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE said > Permission Denied executing getty and other programs. Now when we reboot, > it saids: > > exec /sbin/init: error 13 > exec /stand/sysinstall: error 13 > init: not found > panic: no init > > and stops .... how can we fix this, or atleast get into the system so we can > backup important files before re-installing. Prepare a fixit floppy using floppies/fixit.flp and boot with the original boot&install floppy. Select the fixit mode from sysinstall; you'll have a chance to fsck and mount the hard disk file systems. Copy your important files to the floppy (ok - there's not much space on the fixit floppy, but may be you've two floppy drives). Alternatively, try to bring up the network interface with ifconfig, to mount harddisk's / on /mnt and /usr on /mnt/usr or so and to put your files with a ftp on a different host. On the other hand, you could try to reinstall the bin distribution from CD or net after mounting the hard disk file systems on /mnt by cd /mnt; cat /cdrom/bin/bin.??; tar xvpzf - Konrad Heuer // Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH // Goettingen (GWDG), Am Fassberg, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany // // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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