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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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: 22 Oct 1996 23:14:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <54jkfr$k3o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <540mdt$hsl@snoopy.microtronic.de> <5496at$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <54fbd5$2im@snoopy.microtronic.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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. > > >Does your root floppy have a /dev/console? > > Yes, with the same permissions as the /dev/console on all my current systems. > Are my questions too obvious, or are they too difficult? :-) I simply don't know why it doesn't work... i once had some serious trouble creating such a set of floppies, but it finally turned out i forgot about /dev/console. Try a DDB kernel, this gives you the added feature of a `ps' command inside DDB. Perhaps this might get you further. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)