can't login from console
Chuck Karish
karish at forel.stanford.edu
Sun Jun 25 04:54:18 AEST 1989
In article <1618 at cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> marg at cunixc.cc.columbia.edu
(Margarita Suarez) wrote:
>hi, i just inherited a mac II/X with an 80SC with A/UX. i've not been
>able to boot multi-user from the console -- what happens when i type
>"telinit 2" is an infinite loop of "login:" immediately followed by
>"Login incorrect" (didn't ask for password).
This sounds like what happened once when I had two instances
of `init' running at the same time (on a VAX). Each `init' starts
a `getty' on each port, and each `getty' reads what the other `getty'
on that port writes.
Are you sure you're using the correct procedure to go to multi-user
mode?
Chuck Karish {decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!karish
(415) 493-7277 karish at forel.stanford.edu
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