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
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Patrick Sitton wrote:
> 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.
