Boot Problems!
Christina Fyock
cfyock at hawk.ulowell.edu
Sun Jan 27 10:29:53 AEST 1991
Friday, I unpacked my brand-spanking-new A/UX 2.0 80-meg
hard drive. Following the instructions, I attached it to my
ci, set the startup disk, rebooted and ran the A/UX startup app.
I changed the root password as per the instructions, and everything
seemed to be going well. However, instead of the Finder coming up,
I got a flashing (as in crash) dialog box with no text in it. I
rebooted, and now when A/UX finishes loading, a window comes up that
says that /mac/bin/Login is not executable, so it's using gettty.
However, I can't log on. The password for root that I entered isn't
accepted, and neither is just <return>. Using cat (under the startup
app), I don't see an entry for root in /etc/passwd. I'm knowledgable
with Macs and Unix, but clueless (obviously :-) with A/UX. Can anyone
give me a clue?
System config:
IIci, 20Meg RAM, 80Meg internal Mac disk, 80Meg external A/UX disk,
8.24GC card (4Meg RAM), Daystar cache card.
Since I'm booting from the Mac partition on the A/UX disk, my
system version and inits don't apply...
Please email me at
cfyock at hawk.ulowell.edu
Thanks,
Lee Fyock
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