Subject: Re: Problem with shell when booting with Madhatter41.
To: Bo-Goeran Wallner <f94bw@efd.lth.se>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/28/1997 10:07:26
> I have a question concerning the Madhatter 41 kernel. I recently installed 
> this in order to run 832x624. I also installed the latest distribution of 
> NetBSD 1.3beta. It boots fine with the GENERIC kernel but with the Madhatter 
> problem arises (maybe tiny ones...) Ok, when it asks me to enter pathway for 
> shell I did exactly what I did with the GENERIC, just hit enter. The only 
> thing that happens is that it tells me a line with text (Cant remeber it 
> exactly right now since Im sitting at school at one of the SUN Ultra:s :-) , 
> in the end "restarting" and the same dialog appears again "enter path.. for 
> shell:". Since I installed tcsh in my root I have tried entering tcsh, typing 
> the full path for sh .... Well nothing seems to work, it just goes round and 
> round again "enter path...."! What is the solution?
> Using everything "latest" with the exeption that I use Madhatter41 on my Q800.
> If I change to the GENERIC it works fine again...

Well, before you said the GENERIC kernel is fine, I thought I had it.

We do need the error message.

When you installed tcsh in your root, did you compile it staticly? If not,
it will need shared libraries (which are in /usr/lib, which isn't there if
your usr is seperate from root). For single-user stuff, just use sh. Then
fix things up (do whatever you needed to do in single-user mode), and
let the boot go multi-user. Then tcsh is fine.

Take care,

Bill