Subject: Re: Quadra610 Boot problems...ALMOST THERE I THINK!!!
To: Erik Bertelsen <erik@sockdev.uni-c.dk>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/10/1997 11:34:50
> 
> On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Greg Evans wrote:
> 
> .. I can *partially* boot using the following Kernels (they all get to the 
> .. same place)
> .. 
> .. nubus0 at mainbus0
> .. root on sd0a swap on sd0b
> .. pram: 0x32fe2d40, macos_boottime: 0x32fe2d38
> .. process (pid1) got signal 10
> .. process (pid1) got signal 10
> .. process (pid1) got signal 10
> .. process (pid1) got signal 10
> .. process (pid1) got signal 10
> .. process (pid1) got signal 10
> .. etc, etc,
> .. 
> .. 
> 
> To me this look like you might be booting into multi-user operation.
> 
> Try to boot into single-user (check box in booter) and then see
> how the boot process proceeds.
> 
> If you get a prompt for a shell and then a shell prompt, try to do
> a fsck and verify that your /dev directory is populated.

I STRONGLY second this recomendation. I ran into this exact problem this
weekend on my SE/30. I had just installed 1.2 from single-user, and
rebooted. I got this error, rebooted into single-user & fsck'd.

Everything was fine after that.

Take care,

Bill