On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Dan Heller wrote:
> so it all started when I decided to compile my own kernel.  when it 
> finished compiling, I felt adventurous, so I thought I would try it.  not 
> surprisingly, it didn't work.  while starting up, it stopped with the 
> message "/etc/rc.conf not configured", which puzzled me a little, so I 
> used the installer utility to change kernels back to the old one that I 
> had been using that I knew worked.  when restarted, it gave me the same 
> error message, about rc.conf.  I figured maybe the file got changed 
> somehow, so I downloaded etc.tar.gz using my powermac and copied the rc, 
> rc.conf, rc.subr, and rc.lkm files into bsd (just to be safe).  

That message means you need to edit /etc/rc.conf and change
"rc_configured=NO" to "rc_configured=YES" (and actually configure the rest
of it, if the defaults aren't what you want).

> now when i try to boot, I get the message "could not exec 
> /usr/libexec/getty for /dev/ttye0: file does not exist" (or something 
> damn close to that).  Using the installer utility, /usr/libexec/getty 
> exists, and I rebuilt all of the devices and verified that /dev/ttye0 is 
> there.  I also rewrote my /etc/fstab and verified that all of the 
> partitions were there.

Don't know about that one... however, you can boot single user by checking
the checkbox in the booter program. You'll get a shell prompt where you
can then mount your filesystems and make sure everything looks right. A
"mount -a", should mount /usr assuming your /etc/fstab is correct. If you
do that and /usr still isn't there, there's probably still something not
quite right with fstab.
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