Re: Problems logging in

[Tommy McCabe <rocketjet314@yahoo.com>]

Hey. 
 I have an Toshiba T1000SE with an Intel 80C86-2 9.54
MHz processor, a little 20MB hardddrive, 640KBytes of
memory extended with some extra memory card. 
 


The battery eliminator is designed to output max 580mA
and the puter require 2A according to the
specification. Don't know if that matters, the
computer boot free from errors. 
 


I wrote a imagefile (full3) to a floppy with: 
 dd if=full3 of=/dev/fd0 
 


the output from dd is: 
 2880+0 records in 
 2880+0 records out 
 1474560 bytes transferred in 48.029910 secs (30701
bytes/sec) 
 


Seems fine, right? 
 


I boot my Toshiba from the new made floppy and all the
output seems fine, no errors or such. 
 A pretty little login-prompt shows up. I tried to
login as root and then it reads a bit from 
 the floppy and then just freeze. 
 


Anyone who sits on a solution of my problem? 
 
It seems those boot floppies (they haven't been
updated in a while; I haven't gotten around to
checking a more recent kernel) have some sort of
problem booting ash at login. It appears to be SSOBS
(Some Sort Of Bug Somewhere). Edit the first line of
/etc/passwd on the root floppy from /bin/ash to
/bin/sash. Starting ash from sash seems to work fine.


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