Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:44:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Login at boot? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960714214245.225G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960714181051.164100A-100000@homer27.u.washington.edu>
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On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Ken Marsh wrote: > I always do the shutdown, even though I hear Cntl-Alt-Del will work too. I > use "shutdown -h now", and wait for the "press any key to reboot" message, > then I off the power. Maybe you jumped the gun on it. > I tried booting with -s option, and found that I have few commands at my > disposal (i.e., no man pages) and I am also denied access to the file > /etc/nologin. "su" is also not available when I single-user boot. I can > delete the file when logged in as root, but then it reinstates itself when > I reboot. Oh, you have to key in "mount /" then "mount -a" to get your commands back and get / back to read/write. > This is only one of many problems I have had, including no login prompt on > boot, my atapi CD-ROM isn't recognized, my lpd daemon has to be > re-activated manually with ever print..... it think all the problems are > the result of using an atapi CD-ROM boot floppy from the 2.1.0 release to > install from the Walnut Creek 2.0.5 CD. The install was not very clean. possibly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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