From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tommy McCabe Subject: Re: Problems logging in Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:21:58 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040114022158.42410.qmail@web11701.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org 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. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus