On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:19:34AM -0800, Ryan Low wrote:
> I just installed NetBSD 1.5 on an old Pentium I
> dinosaur from cdrom. Installation completes and
> everything is smooth until I try to log in for the
> first time. At the login prompt, having received the
> root name and password, it thinks for a little bit,
> then puts up another login prompt. Note that it does
> not reject the user/pass, but just spits out another
> prompt. The thing is, I logged in just fine after the

No "Login incorrect" message ?

> first time I installed. Much to my regret, however, I
> decided to re-install and change the partitioning
> scheme (just use the whole disk and accept all the
> default values). Now, after many re-install attempts
> with the vain hope that this problem might go away, I
> am beginning to feel frustrated. Any ideas? I would
> really like to log in......

Try to log in single user (someone else already told you how to do this :)
and then try to 'su root'. If the passwd is valod I suspect it can't exec
root's shell, or something like this.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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