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Hi, i used the command chmod -R +rxw on the root folder, it worked and all but i gt lots of errors when i try things, so i used chmod -R -rxw....All went hell!
i could go in anything all icons didnt work , start menu didnt work, and i restarted the comp, now it wont even load Suse, it goes to the dual booter lilo i think it is and i got linux. during the loading it freezes and says about init level. im pretty new to linux can someone please help me?
PS: I tryed to do rescue but i didnt know how and when i went to the home/magus folder (My home folder) it tells me the the folder magus does not exsist. Please someone help.
I just got the error message. This is it.
Kernal Panic = no init found Try giving kernal = init option
What you did was turning the /root non-executable, so the sytem failed to run/boot.
One way out of this is to get a bootable linux cd (such as SuSe9.1 Live, damnsmalllinux), then boot it off the CD. Once in, cd to your regular linux drive, go to su, then chmod the root back.
Hi, i used the command chmod -R +rxw on the root folder
please give a little more information. first, what the target of this command (the way it's written is won't do anything.) was it
chmod -R +rxw *
??
What if you said
chmod -R +rxw .*
??
THAT would have serious implications (as root, which you must have been operating as since you were in the root folder). Serious implications, esp. for the second example, if you actually had '.*' as the target for:
Quote:
chmod -R -rxw
which would have effectively shut down access to all files on your system. Recursive on dot files works on what you see with `ls -A`, plus '.' and '..'
When it starts operating on '..' (parent folder) you've just gone up to / and started changing permissions on the entire system.
I'm just guessing here, again, because there's not enough info in your post ??
As for the kernel panic and the need for init, well, maybe /boot/initrd-{kernelname} is unreadable or unaccessable ..
I just fixed it, i re-ftp-installed SuSE 9.1 and now its working fine...But oh well at least i learned a leason, but one question. Some games have installers that want to make there game folder in the root folder eg. /wyvern/client
i dont know if you guys no this game but if i accept this dir, it says cannot create, or if i wanna install some lib files, how would i put them in the root folder because its always access denied even if im root.
and btw lol whats the command to delete?
wasn't aware of your original post ( was typing mine as you were submitting yours i guess) -
anyway my confusion was thinking he meant /root when he said "root folder"-
glad he's back in business !!
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