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From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Subject: Re: [386bsd]: No login prompt!
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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 01:28:56 GMT
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In article <jnpotts.720317414@vincent2.iastate.edu> you write:
>4) booted fixit disk, and copied my original kernal (which I had kept) back
>   to 386bsd.
>5) booted with old kernal, and still get no login.  It's as if there was
>   nothing specified in the ttys file.

 did you change the getty to /dev/vga ... I suspect yes. More importantly,
 did MAKE /dev/vga major 12 minor 0)?

--mark