386/ix hangs at bootime
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Wed May 2 01:43:05 AEST 1990
drich at dialogic.com (Dan Rich) writes:
>In article <1990Apr27.203608.10734 at brian386.uucp> news at brian386.uucp (News Administrator) writes:
>>
>>Question, did you try the following?
>> Boot from the Boot disk.
>> mount /dev/dsk/0s1 /mnt
>> cp /unix /mnt/unix
>> umount /mnt
>> uadmin 2 0
>>
> I have learned that it is much easier if you install a copy of the
>boot disk unix on the system when you first install Unix. That way,
>whenever the system fails, you can boot with a known clean copy. To
>do this, I do the following after installing the core disks:
>mount /dev/dsk/f0q15d /mnt
>cp /mnt/unix /unix.orig
>umount /mnt
Yeah, that's what I said ;8-). I was just trying to help from the
stand point of the system being dead and him not having a copy of the
original /unix on his harddrive.
brian
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