Re: Reboot / new user problems on 1.3?

[George Coulouris <glc5%cornell.edu@localhost>]

Markus Illenseer wrote:
> 
> > 1) Reboot code doesn't work. Whether I halt and then reboot,
> > or just give it C-A-A, the machine just hangs at a gray screen.
> > It doesn't even make it to the AmigaDOS boot menu.
> 
>  Do you have Kick-ROMs? How do you start NetBSD exactly?

I boot 'bsd by powering up the machine, and holding down both mouse
buttons (I have a 2.04 ROM). I then select the root partition from the
boot menu, which loads the kernel and boots NetBSD.

If I boot the AmigaDOS partition, it softkicks in 3.1.. but since I boot
netbsd before it gets this far, I imagine this isn't a problem..

> > 2) Can't add new users. If I run vipw and add the line
> >
> > george::101:200::0:0:George:/home/george:/bin/csh
> 
>  Looks perfect; did work for me. Try to generate a new, fresh database:
> "man pwd_mkdb"

Fixed. Stupid problem, I had an empty line at the bottom of the passwd
file :)

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George L. Coulouris - http://www.tc.cornell.edu/~glc5/
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