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Article #59628Re: Linux Booting Problem, after installing getty_ps. "Respawning" error
From: Mike Battersby
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 00:00
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grantham@c031.aone.net.au (Ben Grantham) writes: >via modem. I read most of the documentation and decided that my inittab file >needed changes, basically it read ...."agetty" etc and I simply changed it to "getty" > Now I get the response, at boot time, "date, time etc" then > init[1]: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 mins You have to actually *have* getty first. >I then used my emergency disk, and the machine booted with the same error !!!!! Don't use your hard drive as the root partition. >hdsk partitiion at hdb6. It will, unless you've hosed it. >Is there any way to step through the bootup, or perhaps ctl "c" it? Nope, hose inittab and you're basically stuffed bar a boot disk. - Mike
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,c8fe3db2be507e42,start X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: michaelb@penfold.cc.monash.edu.au (Mike Battersby) Subject: Re: Linux Booting Problem, after installing getty_ps. "Respawning" error Date: 1995/12/13 Message-ID: <4alr28$iqo@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 121718300 references: <4ajdg1$188_001@MP2000.com.au> organization: Monash University newsgroups: aus.computers.linux