On Thu, 10 Apr 1997 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT) 
 Oliver Yeh <oliver@alpha.fdu.edu> wrote:

 > 	I recently installed NetBSD-1.2.1 on my NEC P166 Power Mate, I
 > received error of init: already running when ask for the path name for
 > my shell. This happened after I installed the OS completly and try to
 > boot from my hard disk the first time.

Sounds like you didn't pass the --unlink argument to tar?  I've heard of
this happening before - basically, you have an init program as another
name now, and it check the pid against 1 and notices that it's different,
and complains at you...

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