Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> Is your root filesystem (well, the /etc directory) read-only?  Or does
> a stale /etc/ptmp file exist?
> 

The system I am testing has everything loaded into a ramdisk embedded into the kernel. I just boot up netbsd.test at the boot prompt to check it out. I'm also using crunchgen, which merges all the executeables together into one file, which is statically linked, so I shouldn't need the linker and the libraries.

My filesystem is listed below.

Root was readonly. So I copied mount and mount_ffs into /sbin and created a /etc/fstab with the following entries...

/dev/md0a / ffs rw 1 1
/dev/md0b none swap sw 0 0

After doing a "mount -u /" at the prompt, I was able to successfully change the root password. However, the system still drops to the prompt without a login after booting. What do I need to do to get to the login screen? Is this the function of the rc system?

Thanks in advance.




My filesystem so far...
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files.crunch/bin:
cat cp  ls  sh  vi

files.crunch/dev:
(.. all the /dev nodes for MAKEDEV ramdisk)

files.crunch/etc:
fstab           passwd          rc.conf         ttys
master.passwd   pwd.db          spwd.db

files.crunch/sbin:
init      mount     mount_ffs reboot

files.crunch/usr:
bin     libexec sbin

files.crunch/usr/bin:
login  passwd

files.crunch/usr/libexec:
getty

files.crunch/usr/sbin:
pwd_mkdb