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From: G.Eustace@massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace)
Subject: Re: [386BDS]: Infinite boot loop after applying Beta patches
Message-ID: <1992Oct22.030310.19714@massey.ac.nz>
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 92 03:03:10 GMT
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> I have just applied the Beta patch kit and recompiled everything.
> But something either in the kit or in what I did has broken the
> system.  The newly installed kernel boots, finds the hardware, does
> an fsck and seems to repeatedly find an unreferenced file, I get a #
> prompt, then the message Starting network and then the machine does
> another hard reboot.  This cycle will continue as long as I let it.
> 
> Anyone got any clues as to what has happened ?
> 
> I still have a copy of my original kernel so will put that back in
> but I really want to get things going correctly.

Ooops.  No such luck.  After booting from the fixit floppy, I was
apply to mv in the old kernel but on rebooting the problem re-occurs.
I'm wondering if it could be the new 'ifconfig' that's the problem.


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