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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: 22 Oct 1996 23:14:03 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.
> 
> >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. ;-)