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Re: Linux Booting Problem, after installing getty_ps. "Respawning" error

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From: Mike Battersby
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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From: michaelb@penfold.cc.monash.edu.au (Mike Battersby)
Subject: Re: Linux Booting Problem, after installing getty_ps. "Respawning" error
Date: 1995/12/13
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