Stuck on bootup

[rpowell]

Hey ppl,

I managed to install linux but there was a power cut and now the ps3 wont boot up at all.

Ive tried everything but i gets stuck at:

INIT: version 2.86 booting
INIT: No inittab file found

Enter runlevel:


Nothing seems to work and the game-os doesnt even boot.

Please can someone help
Thanks

[ppietro]

Hey ppl,

I managed to install linux but there was a power cut and now the ps3 wont boot up at all.

Ive tried everything but i gets stuck at:

INIT: version 2.86 booting
INIT: No inittab file found

Enter runlevel:


Nothing seems to work and the game-os doesnt even boot.

Please can someone help
Thanks

Wow - I've never seen this error before. Lucky you!

What I think is going on is that you're missing a key system configuration file - /etc/inittab. The init startup script that is executed during a Linux boot sequence reads a file called inittab located in the /etc directory. Yours appears to be missing or corrupted.

The runlevel question is asking for a Linux runlevel. Runlevels correspond to system functionality and are mostly numeric - ranging from 1 to 6 - except for the s and S runlevels. Normal system runlevels are 3 (full system, no graphics) and 5 (full system, full graphics). I would try either a 5 or a 3 as an answer to the question you're getting. That should get you back to a login screen.

You will need to recreate your /etc/inittab. My PS3 is playing a blu-ray movie for the family right now - Wall-E in hi-def! - so I can't do it right now, but I'll try to post a copy later tonight.

Cheers,
Paul

P.S. If you need to get back to GameOS, and none of the above works, you can always get back by shutting down the PS3, then turning it on from the front (soft) switch by holding it down until you hear 2 beeps.

[ppietro]

Here's /etc/inittab

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#
# inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#               the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author:       Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
#               Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly. 
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"


# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

Cheers,
Paul