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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: crash boot disks - I did it - now for some tuning...
Date: 19 Oct 1996 00:11:09 GMT
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us@microtronic.de (Ulf Schmidt) wrote:

> a) I can't get the system to properly run my /etc/rc on the second floppy 
> (root filesystem). The systems hangs no matter what I put into the file.
> Even if it only reads:
> #!/bin/sh

> I have German keyboard layout on the disk and want it to start
> automatically.  Currently I deleted the file, so the system
> complains, but boots anyway.

Does your root floppy have a /dev/console?

-- 
cheers, J"org

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