When booting the machine the root (/) filesystem is read-only and the following error appears: /etc/init.d/functions: No such file or directory

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Issue

  • When booting the machine the root (/) filesystem is read-only and the following error message appears:
/etc/init.d/functions: No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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