How to recover from invalid inittab file?

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:06:56AM -0800, Daniel Buggie wrote:
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> >  
> 
> Either boot using Roberts suggestion or use rescue mode. Either way,
> once your booted do the following:
> 
> Back up the existing (bad) inittab file in case this doesn't work.
> 
> Get a copy of the initscripts rpm appropriate for your version of
> Fedora, then run the following:
> 
> rpm2cpio initscripts-x.y.z.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd ./etc/inittab
> 
> Check out the new inittab file and compare with the old.  If the new one
> seems sane, copy it to /etc/, reboot, and cross your fingers.
> 
> Daniel
> 
I support Daniels suggestion but I suspect the line:
id:5:initdefault:
is what is missing. You could add that line as the first uncommented
line in the file and see what happens.
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