From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Apr 26 15:49:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 642EA14CCA for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:49:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01428; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:48:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199904262248.PAA01428@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "William Woods" Cc: "FreeBSD Alpha" Subject: Re: Problems on a new install of Alpha FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:40:20 PDT." <000001be9035$c4124270$0c4c93cd@william> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:48:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > OK, I just finished installing FreeBSD Alpha, I go to boot useing "boot -fl > a dka0" to boot off my scsi drive, all goes well till I get this.... > > .: out of file descriptors > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > What is up with this, I though the command "boot -fl a dka0" would boot me > into multi-user mode and whats with the "out of file descriptors" message? This subtle error message exists so that we can laugh at you for making a very stupid mistake. You copied /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf DO NOT DO THIS! -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message