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From: Owen on 10 Jan 2008 08:22
I messed up my Fedora FC7 installation. I was removing packages I
thought were unnecessary (because the partition was kind of small and
because the default installation put in a lot of unnecessary
things.) So I went down the list of packages using the GUI add/remove
software thing, and I picked out things like Ooffice, apache, etc...
things that I knew I would never need....

Accidentally, I somehow must have chosen something that was important
or was removed for dependencies. Because now when I boot I get:

INIT: No inittab file found
Enter runlevel:

but no matter what runlevel I put in, all I get is:

INIT: no more processes left at this runlevel


What can I do to recover? I have downloaded the FC7 rescue CD and the
LiveCD as well..... But I can't figure out how to use them to recover
my system, without formatting it completely.... The LiveCD in
particular will not do a FC7 installation without first formatting.
(i.e., there is no "upgrade" option when going from FC7 to FC7.)

Thanks in advance!

From: brakerm19 on 26 Jan 2008 13:02
I believe the inittab file is in the initscripts rpm package

you may be able to boot to the rescue DVD/CD and use yum to reinstall
initscripts
or rpm

something like:
rpm -ivh --force --root /mnt/sysimage
/mnt/source/initscripts.<release>.<arch>.rpm

"Owen" <juncus(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I messed up my Fedora FC7 installation. I was removing packages I
> thought were unnecessary (because the partition was kind of small and
> because the default installation put in a lot of unnecessary
> things.) So I went down the list of packages using the GUI add/remove
> software thing, and I picked out things like Ooffice, apache, etc...
> things that I knew I would never need....
>
> Accidentally, I somehow must have chosen something that was important
> or was removed for dependencies. Because now when I boot I get:
>
> INIT: No inittab file found
> Enter runlevel:
>
> but no matter what runlevel I put in, all I get is:
>
> INIT: no more processes left at this runlevel
>
>
> What can I do to recover? I have downloaded the FC7 rescue CD and the
> LiveCD as well..... But I can't figure out how to use them to recover
> my system, without formatting it completely.... The LiveCD in
> particular will not do a FC7 installation without first formatting.
> (i.e., there is no "upgrade" option when going from FC7 to FC7.)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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