Long shot, but I had the same symptoms when I had accidentally made my /dev/null unwritable. If you boot from a boot disk and then ls -l /dev/null, it ought to look like this:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jul 26 11:27 /dev/null If it doesn't, then see 'man null' for instructions on recreating it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Sitton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 3:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: /proc not mounting on boot > > > I could use a little help here please. I have a problem with my > Thinkpad 390x on boot with RH 8. During the startup process I get an > error that /proc can't be mounted. From there I get several errors > about not being able to find various commands. Errors like "Couldn't > open /proc/partitions: No such file or directory". I can go into > maintenance mode and the only thing that is mounted is the root > partition. Shows "none on /proc type proc (rw)". I manually mount > /proc and everything shows as normal. > > The very first error it get's on startup up is: > > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 26: /etc/init.d/functions: No such file or > directory > > >From what I'm looking at is the mount statement for /proc > > This system did run fine for about a month. No updates or other > changes that I know of. > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Pat Sitton > Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:42 PM > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
