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[John T Copeland <johnc AT neto.com>]

Sounds like it can't mount the root partition.  Make sure you aren't using 
the 
old devfs device names in fstab or lilo.conf.  I had that same problem once 
when I copied my system from one partition to another and forgot to change 
fstab.
JohnC

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 10:31 am, Craig Dyke wrote:
> John
>
> this appears to have cured the error from appearing but now my system seems
> to boot up
> as though i always add:
>
>     init=/bin/bash
>
> to the startup.
>
> Any clues on where to go now? (please be nice :))
>
> Craig
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John T Copeland" <johnc AT neto.com>
> To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Cc: "Craig Dyke" <grail AT westnet.com.au>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] udev again :(
>
> > Happened to me too.  I at first did a "cast simpleinit-msb" which
>
> resurrected
>
> > my old cast.  I went back and did a "cast -r -c simpleinit-msb" which
>
> fixed
>
> > the problem.
> > JohnC
> >
> > On Tuesday 13 April 2004 06:15 am, Craig Dyke wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > I realise I can be a bit of a chuckle head but I am stumped again.
> > >
> > > When booting into SM I get to the following:
> > >
> > > rc: Entered runlevel DEV ...
> > >
> > > Then a message telling me that INIT_ROOT is not set and then it tries
> > > to look in current directory.
> > >
> > > I had a similar problem recently but this was solved by doing a mkfifo
> > > initctl in /dev where it was looking.
> > >
> > > This one is looking for the following:
> > >
> > > /etc/init.d/runlevel/%S/dev/initctl
> > >
> > > Is anyone able to tell me what I have f$#@!d up this time?
> > > I did recently run an update which put me to 0.24 of udev.
> > >
> > > Craig
> > >
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