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From: jnpotts@iastate.edu (James N. Potts)
Subject: Re: [386bsd]: No login prompt!
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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 03:37:54 GMT
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In <jnpotts.720317414@vincent2.iastate.edu> jnpotts@iastate.edu (James N. Potts) writes:

>Yes, once again, I have "done something" to my system.  Here's what I did,

>1) rebuilt kernal with patches for X, 2nd drive, and com port fix
>2) booted this kernal.  No problems encountered.
>3) booted again.  This time, however, the system just sat there after it
>   finished the rc script.
>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.

Here's some more information:

   The kernal that I was running BEFORE the rebuild was the patched kernal from
the X distribution.  And I have a correct /dev/vga.

   Also, I can't log in using a terminal connected to /dev/com1, either, and
this has always worked in the past.

James
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James N. Potts          |  "To err is human.  To get multiple UAE's 
jnpotts@iastate.edu     |   requires MS Windows."
tabp6@isuvax.iastate.edu|                      - Me