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From: vikki@e40-008-11.MIT.EDU (Vikki King)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: *!HELP!*  What could be wrong here??
Date: 9 Mar 1993 20:44:05 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
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bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
: In article <1nh8leINN1h5@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, vikki@e40-008-11.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) writes:
: |> 	Here's an update on my troubles (if you're into it).  I believe that
: |> the host is actually booting to the point where it loads init, but init is
: |> simply not doing anything.  I can sit there and type stuff at the console and
: |> get it to carrige return but it doesn't appear to be affecting the machine any.
: 
: Hmmm...
: Have you checked that all files that init needs are there and un-corrupted ?
: Like /etc/rc, /bin/sh and such ?
: 
: Just a thought of someone who has seen other machines crash on the removal of
: /etc/rc...
: 
: -Bernard

Wahoooo!!!  Yes, Bernard, that was it!!  Actually, I caused my own troubles...
Just before the victim crashed I had gotten a copy of bash and (I know this was
mindless) put it on an nfs mounted volume and symlinked to /bin/sh.  So, since
the nfs volume isn't there at boot, niehter was sh(bash).  I wonder how much
trouble it would be to put a few lines of diagnostics into init so that it
would mention things like that?  Thanks Bernard and everyone for your help!

-John