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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!cc-server4.massey.ac.nz!G.Eustace 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 X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c Date: Thu, 22 Oct 92 03:03:10 GMT Lines: 23 > 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. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Glen Eustace, Systems Software Manager | EMail: G.Eustace@massey.ac.nz Computing Services, Massey University, | Phone: +64 6 350 5161 Palmerston North, New Zealand. GMT-12 | Fax: +64 6 350 5607