INIT : cannot execute /etc/init.d/rc
 

Hello there . I'm trying to boot Emdebian lenny on my compact flash and it shows the following errors during boot time :
Then system stops in the login prompt and I cannot do the login .
I think the problem is due to the incorrect arguments written in the /etc/fstab since everything works fine if I mount the root directory as rw . Here is my fstab :
The goal I want to achieve is that the whole system is mounted as read-only besides /home , conf file in /etc such as /etc/network/interfaces and be able to carry out schedule job . I would appreciate your help . Cheers .

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Hi blink,

Why you would like to have your / file system mounted as ro. By default / is marked to mount as ro in grub.cfg/grub.conf during the boot time but as soon as it hit the /etc/fstab it is mounted with either defaults option or error=remount-ro option.

During the boot time it is used as ro so as to prevent it from getting written if any fault occurs.

Not sure why you would like to have it mounted as ro.

Hi T3RM1NVT0R . Thanks for your reply . Since the system will not be upgraded regularly and the only requirements for read-write are VSFTPD service , changing schedule jobs , updating system time and configuring network interface . Therefore I want to mount the / file system as ro besides /home and /etc to maximize my storage drive's life ......

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You're welcome, well I can understand that you do not do frequent updates on / partition but mounting it as ro doesn't look feasible because it is not only you that do the updates to the system it is the system that also writes to files you can take example of log files under /var in which system keeps logging the events.

I would suggest that you keep the / as defaults in fstab and let it mount as rw partition. If you are are worried about people making changes so I dont think so that regular users can do that. If you are worried about sudoers then you can give sudoers only access that they required not more than that.

I hope this helps.