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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!news.unr.edu!eblood From: eblood@pogonip.scs.unr.edu (Eric V. Blood) Subject: [SUMMARY] FreeBSD 2.0: Custom kernel problems Message-ID: <D07J76.AIA@news.unr.edu> Sender: usenet@news.unr.edu Organization: University of Nevada System References: <D03nwu.39M@news.unr.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 23:42:42 GMT Lines: 22 In article <D03nwu.39M@news.unr.edu>, Eric V. Blood <eblood@pogonip.scs.unr.edu> wrote: >I have created a custom kernel that takes out a lot of the unwanted stuff. >Everything seems to be working alright except for two problems. Ones is, >when I login as root with the new kernel intalled, I get: > >root login refused on this terminal >Nov 28 10:47:37 winky login: LOGIN root REFUSE on TTY tty?? > >Also, when I try and start X, I get: > >login: Error 23, errno 25: xterm Error 23, errno 25, Inappropriate ioctl for >device > >These two problems only occur with the custom kernel. If I replace the old >one, everything works. What should I do to correct this or where should I >look for the problem? Included is a copy of the kernel definition. Someone passed along the information to add the BSD 4.3 compatibility option to the kernel specification. This is what did the trick. Thanks to all those who help me out.