>> [...install 1.6.1...].  Then it fired off init, which prompted for a
>> shell or RETURN for sh.
>> 
>> But at this prompt the keyboard is dead.

> This may seem like a silly question, but are you sure that you have a
> /dev tree on your restored disk with valid devices in it?

That's a good suggestion.

But I'm fairly sure.

(a) Since writing I tried the original install, in a single filesystem
(I'm glad I did the snapshots).

(b) I checked /dev and it looked right.

(c) I booted from the install floppies (where the keyboard works fine),
mounted the filesystem, chrooted, and did a "MAKEDEV all" and retried.

None of this helped any.

> When the kernel is asking for input about root and swap, it's not
> using the device tree, but when init is asking about a shell, I
> believe it is.

Probably.

Anyway, I'll be investigating further.  Maybe I can make /sbin/init a
shell script that ktraces the real init or something - I'll see.

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