Installed a buggy kernel ext. Duh, what do I do now?

[Herbert van den Bergh]

In article <4754 at spdcc.SPDCC.COM> dyer at ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>I replaced /etc/nfs.ext with a test version of my own, ignorant
>as I was of the baroque rebooting procedure of the RS6000 (not
>to mention the bugs in my code!)

>All I want to do right now is undo what I've done.  Isn't there
>anyway to boot the damn thing single user before the rc scripts
>start up, so I can rename the modules?

I think it must be possible to reboot from floppies. I never tried it myself.


>It isn't at all obvious to me why it was necessary for IBM to completely
>redo everything so that the system administration knowledge gleaned by
>users over the past 17 years becomes useless.

Probably to give the users of the next 17 years a less hard time as they don't
need to memorize these configuration commands and files.

Could you go to some guy in your computer department who has been working with
*nix boxes for one month and tell him to extend the size of your /
filesystem with some megabytes, and expect the system to run? And I don't
mean DURING the job, because hardly any unix box can do that, but even 
after the job's done. You can show him how to do it 10 times and he`ll
screw up anyway.
What about extending the kernel (what you're working on right now, isn't it?).
How did you do that on other systems? Edit, compile, link kernel, reboot,
crash, reboot, edit, compile, link kernel, ...
With AIX 3.1 you can skip the 'link kernel, reboot' part, so that will save
enough time to study smit :-)

IBM, please don't ever port BSD or System V to these things.
Sell AIX to the others instead.

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>Steve Dyer
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