Lost Console Recovery

Wolf Paul wnp at attctc.Dallas.TX.US
Thu Jul 27 03:21:38 AEST 1989


In article <5728 at obdient.CHI.IL.US> blair at obdient.CHI.IL.US (Doug Blair) writes:
 >In article <5817 at pbhyf.PacBell.COM>, peb at PacBell.COM (Pat Bowens) writes:
 >
 >> While working with 386
 >> release 3.0e, I carelessly turned off my console in etc/inittab.  
 >
 >What? No alternate consoles? Login via a dialup. What? No dialups? Can you
 >say "reinstall?"
 
Not necessary. Just boot with the boot floppy, then mount /dev/dsk/0s1
on /mnt, and edit your inittab file. Detailed instructions previously posted
by John Plocher and (slightly different) myself. All is not lost!
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