[8162] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.3M: RISC/6000 installation doesn't deal with non-X machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barr3y Jaspan)
Wed Sep 11 14:37:43 1991
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 91 14:38:10 EDT
From: "Barr3y Jaspan" <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
System name: bill-the-cat
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.3M
Display type: apa16
What were you trying to do?
Install SIPB's new RISC/6000 without waiting for ops to do it (sheesh,
these impatient college students.. :-) Specifically, we booted with
the 3005.bosboot disk, switched to the 3005.display disk when the LEDs
showed the right magic number (307? who remembers), switched to the
3005.instl.maint disk when prompted, and used TARDIS as our boot
server. The rest was automatic.
What's wrong:
/etc/inittab was set up for a machine with an X interface, which ours
does not have. Specifically, /etc/inittab contained the following
lines:
: cons:0123456789:respawn:/etc/getty /dev/console
acons:0123456789:respawn:/etc/getty /dev/hft
xlogin:2:respawn:/etc/athena/dm /etc/athena/login/config hft hft
/dev/hft does not appear to exist on our machine (perhaps we installed
it incorrectly), and as a result there was no way to log in.
(Note that this means we couldn't log in as root to run smit startup
as we were told to do. After fixing the problem manually, we ran that
command and didn't see anything obvious that we needed to do.)
What should have happened:
The 'cons' line should have been uncommented, and the 'acons' and
'xlogin' lines should have been commented. At least, our doing so
produced the right results (getty is run on /dev/console, and we can
log in).
