From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 14 21:44:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA24505 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.186.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA24492 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA00283; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:44:16 -0700 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:44:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ken Marsh cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Login at boot? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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