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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!usenet From: dn5@psu.edu (D. Jay Newman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Installation Prob: Init: Already running! Date: 3 Dec 1995 23:59:51 GMT Organization: Penn State University Lines: 34 Sender: dn5@0.0.0.0 Message-ID: <49tdln$cl2@hearst.cac.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: magic.cac.psu.edu X-Authinfo-User: dn5@psu.edu X-Posted-From: InterNews 1.0.8@magic.cac.psu.edu X-Authenticated: dn5 on INN host 0.0.0.0 Hi: System: i486 DX2, Adaptek, Novel 2000 clone ethernet, Mach 32 video 8 meg, 800 meg HD. I have just finished installing NetBSD 1.1, and am having a fairly major problem: It boots into the start of single-user mode, then when it asks for the shell, no matter what I type, I get Init: already running This message happens once right before the "Enter pathname of shell" msg, and twice if I hit return (everytime); likewise if I type /bin/sh. If I type /bin/csh, I actually get in, but any command that I do has the same pathology (two messages of "init: already running"). This happens both with the mini-root from the floppy, and an ftp'ed root (both of course Adaptek roots). I've had netbsd 1.0 current on this machine (until July when I lost my source partitian), but I've never run into this problem before. Any help would be appreciated. I've just spent two days fighting with my machine getting it to this point, and now I'm lost. :( -- D. Jay Newman dn5@psu.edu