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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 01:22:59 -0400 From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU> To: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: bug-sparc@Athena.MIT.EDU I was trying to debug the problem which causes suns to wedge when I try to log in. I wedged stage8. I typed Stop-A, got on "ok" prompt, and typed "boot." It did not boot. Instead, it said: WARNING: Cannot open '/etc/path_to_inst' Enter name of device instance number file [/dev/null]: Typing return at this point won't do any good, of course. It simply prints the message: re-trying host configuration... over and and over and over. If you type CTRL-C at this point, you can single user mode, but I wasn't able to fix it by doing that because nothing useful is on the root partition. Even cat, mv, ln, and cp are on another partition, one which I can't mount because vfstab doesn't exist. I can't even echo lines into vfstab to try to create it, because it seems to be read only. Total lose. And I thought the DECstations were bad because things su and chpt were remote. This takes the cake. -Calvin
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