[895] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: installation problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Apr 6 13:29:10 1996
To: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Apr 1996 11:53:31 EST."
<199604061653.LAA13442@morning-star.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 13:25:14 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Specifically, the machine never gets past "setting tty flags" and
> hangs.
I've heard of this before, although it's never happened to a machine
I've installed.
To work around it, boot the machine single-user (type "-s" at the
NetBSD boot prompt; you have to be quick), and do
fsck -p
mount -a
ed /etc/rc
/ttyflags
s/^/#/p
w
q
sync
reboot
