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Name: David
Date: April 1, 2001 at 11:29:56 Pacific
Subject: Run level???
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I'm not able to boot my Linux normally because during the boot appears a line asking telling me: "INIT :Enter run level"
I write 1 and it tells me "enetring run-level 1->No more processes left in this run-level" and I can't go on.
What should I do without re-installing Linux?


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Response Number 1
Name: Steve
Date: April 1, 2001 at 12:53:04 Pacific
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You need to get to a place where you're at a command prompt. Enter another number, like 2. You need to get into the /etc/inittab file and enter a run level there for init. There should be a line that looks like this:

init:X:something else

What you want to do is replace X with a number. I would guess you want to run at 2, depending on what you're using Linux for.


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Response Number 2
Name: Jim
Date: April 1, 2001 at 16:09:22 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

But he needs to know how to get into the inittab file. Run level 1 is "halt". The computer should start normally if a boot-floppy is used. Then one can happily edit /etc/inittab. In my Redhat system, the line is id:3:initdefault, with 3 being command prompt level. 5 is GUI level, if you want it to start directly to the GUI. When this happened to me, my computer wouldn't start and I had no bootdisk. So I used a dos bootdisk with Norton Disk Editor on it and did a text search of the hard disk for the above-mentioned line, then I could change it.
Another way is to download (if you have a computer to use) a tiny Linux on a floppy such as Tomsrtbt or Ramfloppy, boot with it, mount your hard disk and start editing. Have fun! Jim.


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