Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:56:47 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: "Roger P. Johnson" <rpj@fep.hirshfields.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Restoring disk from tape, now I can't login. Message-ID: <20000424215647.B75267@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <200004242038.PAA15680@fep.hirshfields.com>; from rpj@fep.hirshfields.com on Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 03:38:29PM -0500 References: <200004242038.PAA15680@fep.hirshfields.com>
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 03:38:29PM -0500, Roger P. Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to make a copy of my disk sd0 so I would have a backup disk > in case it should die. I'm doing this working on 2 different machines at the > same time. > > I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.6. > > On the 2nd machine and hard drive, I created my disklabel, installed the > minimim FreeBSD OS option, reboot it and can boot and run from this 2nd > machine and disk (all from the FreeBSD installation program as usual). > > Now on this 2nd machine, I boot up into "Fixit" mode, mount all the partions > onto their repective places (/mnt, /mnt/usr, /mnt/var etc). > > Then I do a full restore from tape onto the 2nd hard drive containing the > data from my 1st machine and drive. > > I unmount all the partions from /mnt. > > I reboot. > > I get the login and password prompts. I enter _valid_ username and password > combonations, but instead of getting logged into the system, it cycles back > to the login: prompt again. Did you check the symlinks on, % ls -l /usr/lib/libcrypt* Do they match on the old and new disks? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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