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From: plocher%sally@Sun.COM (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Lost Console Recovery
Keywords: Console
Message-ID: <117178@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 22 Jul 89 04:49:41 GMT
References: <5817@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: plocher@sun.UUCP (John Plocher)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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In article <5817@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> peb@PacBell.COM (Pat Bowens) writes:
>
>I have a major problem that I need help with.  While working with 386
>release 3.0e, I carelessly turned off my console in etc/inittab.  

Method 1:	If you have a getty running on a serial port

	Plug in a serial terminal, log in on it, su to root, fix things

Method 2:	If you don't...

Boot from your boot floppy
Hit del at the first prompt from the INSTALL script
At the shell prompt type the following:
	mount /dev/dsk/0s0 /mnt
	/mnt/bin/ed /mnt/etc/inittab
		... fix it ... and write it out ...
	umount /dev/dsk/0s0
	sync
	sync
	sync
	uadmin 2 0
When the system shuts down take out the boot floppy and reboot from the hard disk.

   -John Plocher