Lost Console Recovery
Wolf Paul
wnp at attctc.Dallas.TX.US
Thu Jul 27 03:21:38 AEST 1989
In article <5728 at obdient.CHI.IL.US> blair at obdient.CHI.IL.US (Doug Blair) writes:
>In article <5817 at pbhyf.PacBell.COM>, peb at PacBell.COM (Pat Bowens) writes:
>
>> While working with 386
>> release 3.0e, I carelessly turned off my console in etc/inittab.
>
>What? No alternate consoles? Login via a dialup. What? No dialups? Can you
>say "reinstall?"
Not necessary. Just boot with the boot floppy, then mount /dev/dsk/0s1
on /mnt, and edit your inittab file. Detailed instructions previously posted
by John Plocher and (slightly different) myself. All is not lost!
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