Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!rvdp
From: rvdp@cs.vu.nl (=Ronald van der Pol)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO-Unix - booting to single user mode and then crash
Message-ID: <8020@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 22 Oct 90 22:47:36 GMT
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seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:

rvdp>>I have had the same problem. You can type in your root password
rvdp>>and then <CTRL><CR> (!!!). 

>Control-Enter is newline, the same as Control-J.  (I just sent a message to
>Willy, explaining this.)

>The problem was probably caused by being in a non-cooked mode on syscon when
>the system went down.
	When I had this problem I shut down the machine, turned off the 
	power and rebooted (to single user(!), I didn't trust the machine
	anymore). The problem hadn't disappeared! So the strange console
	state must have been saved in some file. Which file contains this
	information?

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		Ronald van der Pol  <rvdp@cs.vu.nl>