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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!e40-008-11.MIT.EDU!vikki From: vikki@e40-008-11.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: *!HELP!* What could be wrong here?? Date: 9 Mar 1993 20:44:05 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1nivilINNmms@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <1nhqf9$nqc@Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: e40-008-11.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes: : In article <1nh8leINN1h5@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, vikki@e40-008-11.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) writes: : |> Here's an update on my troubles (if you're into it). I believe that : |> the host is actually booting to the point where it loads init, but init is : |> simply not doing anything. I can sit there and type stuff at the console and : |> get it to carrige return but it doesn't appear to be affecting the machine any. : : Hmmm... : Have you checked that all files that init needs are there and un-corrupted ? : Like /etc/rc, /bin/sh and such ? : : Just a thought of someone who has seen other machines crash on the removal of : /etc/rc... : : -Bernard Wahoooo!!! Yes, Bernard, that was it!! Actually, I caused my own troubles... Just before the victim crashed I had gotten a copy of bash and (I know this was mindless) put it on an nfs mounted volume and symlinked to /bin/sh. So, since the nfs volume isn't there at boot, niehter was sh(bash). I wonder how much trouble it would be to put a few lines of diagnostics into init so that it would mention things like that? Thanks Bernard and everyone for your help! -John