> 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
> 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......
> 
> Thanks for the help
> Ryan


Thanks for the help, everyone. OK, so I boot into
single-user mode and mount all the filesystems;
everything works fine. I try running login from the
single-user prompt, and it core dumps. After many
repeated trials--both running it from the single-user
prompt and letting the system run it after bootup--it
seems to me that the problem is that login is
core-dumping. Sometimes it works for a stretch, but
always reverts to its old wily ways. Or sometimes
'panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted' is generated (I'm
not that experienced tho, so I don't know if this is
even related. Maybe just caused by having to
force-reboot so many times? fsck seems to fix,
anyhow). Could it just be that the data is bad on the
cd from which I'm installing?

Much thanks,
Ryan

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