SCO-Unix - booting to single user mode and then crash
=Ronald van der Pol
rvdp at cs.vu.nl
Tue Oct 23 08:47:36 AEST 1990
seanf at sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:
rvdp>>I have had the same problem. You can type in your root password
rvdp>>and then <CTRL><CR> (!!!).
>Control-Enter is newline, the same as Control-J. (I just sent a message to
>Willy, explaining this.)
>The problem was probably caused by being in a non-cooked mode on syscon when
>the system went down.
When I had this problem I shut down the machine, turned off the
power and rebooted (to single user(!), I didn't trust the machine
anymore). The problem hadn't disappeared! So the strange console
state must have been saved in some file. Which file contains this
information?
--
Ronald van der Pol <rvdp at cs.vu.nl>
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