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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Boot Problems with 386/ix
Keywords: boot, 386/ix
Message-ID: <1278@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 89 02:18:00 GMT
References: <1778@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc
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In article <1778@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>, fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) writes:
> I tried my disk on the machine of a colleague and my diskette and his
> both boot without problems on his machine. But neither of them does
> on mine. I get the message:
> respawnning to fast,
> r0  -sh  .....

At this point I would tend to blame some problem in the hardware, most 
probably the floppy drive.  I  would try to clean the heads on your
floppy drive and/or swap drives with one you know is a good one.

> By the way, is there any way to enter the system if the passwd file
> got corrupted? I can login as a user, but the root password is not
> recognized. And remember I can't boot from the floppy disk.

If you cant boot from the floppy, you are out of luck.  That is why I 
always boot to single user mode (and I removed the /etc/sulogin program
and replaced it with a link to /bin/sh).

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