I use SCO OpenServer 5.07. For the first time since installation, the
drive crashed and I had to do a restore. I booted on my CTAR 2.88 MB
diskettes but the hard drive would not mount; it seems that the CTAR
file diskette is missing some 5.07 files. So then I did the following:

1. booted and rooted with my SCO boot and root diskettes (not CTAR's)
2. mount /dev/hd0root /mnt
3. mkdir /mnt/stand
4. mount /dev/boot /mnt/stand
5. cd /mnt
6. tar xvf /dev/rct0 . [the CTAR files were not compressed]
7. umount /mnt/stand
8. umount /mnt
9. reboot

BUT, ALAS, upon rebooting, everything seems OK until I get WARNING:
exit - /etc/init (PID 1) died, status 0x0000008A. Didn't we have
trouble before with /etc/init in getting the CTAR boot and root
diskettes to work?

Now, what? All of my files are back on the drive. The original
/etc/init (from the tape) is there; so how could it be faulty? I tried
using CTAR's version of /etc/init (54676 bytes vs. 28584 bytes), which
was still on the hard drive (and necessary to make the CTAR boot and
root diskettes) but to no avail. So, now what?