I had trouble with an old hd (hdb) this weekend so I made a backup (complete in .tar) and I reformat the drive. I passed from ext3 to reiserfs.

Having another Linux distro on my box (hda) I restored Slackware 10 by detarring the big archive created before (more than 3 gig). Everything seemed perfect. I changed my Slackware's /etc/fstab so that /dev/hdb1 is now reiserfs instead of ext3.

I ran lilo and booted... in a shell.

Slackware 10 refuses to execute any init script, it booted fast and dumped me in a shell as root (looks like init 1 I guess).

I tried to reconfigure using Slackware 10 first disk without any change to this start behavior :-(

If I don't want to reinstall everything, what should I do?

Have you tried adding yourself as a user and typing "startx"? Slackware default install doesn't give you the option to add a normal user. You do that at the initial root prompt.

Everything was restored, even the only user of Slack (besides root of course). Like I said yesterday, /etc/rc.d/rc.M doesn't want to execute (it is called by innittab) at all...

I decided to reinstall from scratch...

Thank's anyway!