On Sun, 12 Feb 1995 23:32:57 -0700 (MST) 
 William V Roth <bud@selway.umt.edu> wrote:

 > 1. The boot jumps from the booter console to a whole screen interface.  
 > (It is impossible to tell if it is the unix screen or it is a debugger.)  
 > A copyright and email address is listed.  Then a whole lot of info about 
 > memory and other stuff comes out.  One line reads, "weird mapping begins 
 > 0x0."  Then a few tests are made.  Some go o.k.  Some say read only.  
 > Then, inevitably, an "enter shell path or press return for sh: " prompt 
 > appears.  I hit return.  It says putting "." before pathname, and 
 > continues. Next it asks, "Enter terminal type: ".  I have no documentary 
 > that tells me what to do, so I type "tty".  It responds with a "#" prompt 
 > to which nothing, but the answer, "exit", works.  Except, "exit" just 
 > reruns part of the initialization and gets me back to the "Enter shell 
 > path" prompt.

heh - congratulations - I'd call it successful.  The ``stuff' you see 
is the output from the autoconfiguration sequence...The `#' prompt in 
this case indicates single-user mode.  The last time I used a Mac, I 
think vt100 worked fine for the console...Sounds like you're missing 
/etc/fstab or somesuch, since it keeps coming into single-user...

 > 
 > Am I close to a successful boot?
 > 
 > TIA,
 > 
 > Bud
 > 
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