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Operating Systems SCO PANIC: exit - cannot exec /etc/init (PID 1), status 0*00000200 Post 302826703 by jgt on Thursday 27th of June 2013 06:39:58 AM

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The size of the dump exceeds the size of the assigned swap space. You cannot create an emergency boot floppy until you can successfully boot the system
The 0x0000200 error is file not found. So my presumption is that the root file system is corrupted.
Remove the disk, find another disk and install the operating system. Then change the SCSI ID on the old disk to 1 or 3 and re-install the disk and run "mkdev hd" to add the second disk. When running 'divvy' be sure not to change any file system sizes, and do not mark any of the file systems as "new". You will have to name the partitions though. Hopefully you will be able to extract any files that you do not have backed up on removable media.

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mkbootdisk

MKBOOTDISK(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     MKBOOTDISK(8)

NAME

       mkbootdisk - creates a stand-alone boot floppy for the running system

SYNOPSIS

       mkbootdisk [--version] [--noprompt] [--verbose]
		  [--device devicefile] [--size size]
		  [--kernelargs <args>] [--iso] kernel

DESCRIPTION

       mkbootdisk  creates  a  boot  floppy  appropriate for the running system. The boot disk is entirely self-contained, and includes an initial
       ramdisk image which loads any necessary SCSI modules for the system. The created boot disk looks for the root filesystem on the device sug-
       gested by /etc/fstab.  The only required argument is the kernel version to put onto the boot floppy.

OPTIONS

       --device devicefile
	      The  boot image is created on devicefile. If --device is not specified, /dev/fd0 is used. If devicefile does not exist mkinitrd cre-
	      ates a 1.44Mb floppy image using devicefile as the filename.

       --noprompt
	      Normally, mkbootdisk instructs the user to insert a floppy and waits for confirmation before continuing. If --noprompt is specified,
	      no prompt is displayed.

       --verbose
	      Instructs mkbootdisk to talk about what it's doing as it's doing it. Normally, there is no output from mkbootdisk.

       --iso  Instructs mkbootdisk to make a bootable ISO image as devicefile.

       --version
	      Displays the version of mkbootdisk and exits.

       --kernelargs args
	      Adds  args  to the arguments appended on the kernel command line. If this is not specified mkbootdisk uses grubby to parse the argu-
	      ments for the default kernel from grub.conf, if possible.

       --size size
	      Uses size (in kilobytes) as the size of the image to use for the boot disk.  If this is not  specified,  mkbootdisk  will  assume  a
	      standard 1.44Mb floppy device.

SEE ALSO

       grubby(8) dracut(8)

AUTHOR

       Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

4th Berkeley Distribution					  Tue Mar 31 1998						     MKBOOTDISK(8)