SCO-Unix - booting to single user mode and then crash

[=Ronald van der Pol]

paine at fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes:


>    -------------------< display >----------------------------------
>    
>    Type control-d to proceed with normal startup,
>                                                ( or give root passwd
>    for system maintaince.
>    
>    ----------------------------------------------------------------
>    Then it freezes or crashs and I can not press <return>.  Notice there
>    is no real linefeed between "startup," and "(or give"
	I have had the same problem. You can type in your root password
	and then <CTRL><CR> (!!!). It really works (I found out when
	I became real angry and just hit same random keys :-)
 	After you have logged in as root type 'stty sane'. Now you
	can work again.
>    
>    How can I upgrade this from disk instead of installing from scratch?
	You should create an 'emergency boot floppy' and a 'root
	filesystem floppy' (sysadmsh->filesystems->floppy). This procedure
	and restoring your root filesystem is very poorly documented and 
	what the manual says about it is **not** correct.
	You should at least do the following:
	- Make a boot and root floppy
	- When your root filesystem is too big (development system, etc)
	  you probably get 'out of inodes' on the floppy. I don't know
	  yet what to do about that.
	- You have to make a mount point on the 'root filesystem floppy'
	  for the hard disk.
	- You should first remove your old root filesystem or create
	  a new root filesystem on your hard disk. Otherwise you still
	  can have old (bogus) files in your system.

	Again: the manual is **totally inadequate** !!!

	Good luck,

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		Ronald van der Pol  <rvdp at cs.vu.nl>