I'd like to have your help on a problem which is not concerning Sabayon, but a very old Linux distribution (Suse). This is why I put my topic on "off topic" section: it is not Sabayon.
It is a very strange problem!
The boot hangs with message "no inittab found".
Booting a Live Distribution (knoppix) I can give a look at the disk. Three partitions: sda1=/ , sda2=/var , sda3=swap
Mounting sda1 I can found inside:
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 27 2007 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 27 2007 boot
drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 61440 Jan 8 12:01 dev
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? etc
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 10 2008 home
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Mar 27 2007 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Mar 27 2007 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 21 2002 media
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 7 2012 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jul 25 2008 opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 27 2007 proc
drwx------ 6 root root 4096 Jul 16 2012 root
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 27 2007 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 27 2007 srv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 10 07:56 success
drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 12:00 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Mar 27 2007 usr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 27 2007 var
as you can see, etc is very strange. The operating system can see something called "etc", but it doesn't know if it is a file, a directory, or something else. Maybe inode corruption!
Is there any way to recover the /etc dir in this particular case? I have no backup! (since filesystem is ext3, I do not understand why it didn't recover by itself).
Thanks in advance.