Re: INIT:ld "3" respawning too fast:disabled for 5 minutes

["A. Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:47:19AM +0200, Ivar Ruyter wrote:
> Hi again !
> 
> Thanks to  Vik Heyndrickx, Andrew Harm, Mikkel L. Ellertson and 
> Chris Kloiber for their tips.
> 
> Alas, my suspiscion that the inittab file was corrupt did not pan out.
> Using Toms'Linux (www.toms.net) i can reach a root prompt and check that
> inittab is OK.
> 
> Trying to boot linux-2.4.5ac15 the following happens 
> 
> The boot sequence stops at the following level:
> INIT: version 2.78 booting
> INIT:Entering runlevel:3
> INIT:Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>  ""   " "1"    "        "   "       "      "      "
>  ""   " "3"    "        "   "       "      "      "
>          4
> 	 5
> 	 6
> 
> and so on ad infinitum.
> 
> I tried the rescue-cd-0.16.iso also but it never gave me a root prompt.
> Instead, after booting it claimed:
> 
> "I could not find a Red Hat Linux Rescue CDROM in any of your CDROM
> drives. Please insert the Red Hat Rescue CD and press "OK" to retry"
>  
> I just booted from the bloody thing. Go figure.
> 
There is no rescue cd in seawolf. The install CD has the
rescue stuff on it. What did you boot?

Toms linux unless it was sharply upgraded uses a 2.0 kernel
which is not good enough for some seawolf stuff. How did you
find out inittab was ok. Post a copy and let people comment
on it.
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