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From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Help! Cube boots only to single user mode...
Summary: SysVish mistreatment of MACH single-user mode
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.231626.16181@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 91 23:16:26 GMT
References: <1991Feb1.154516.5275@sctc.com>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1991Feb1.154516.5275@sctc.com> herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon) writes:
>
>    About two weeks ago I purchased a Maxtor XT8702S disk drive and 
>    [text deleted  --SJB]
>    entitled "MACH Operating System", in which a shell was running,
>    and leaving me in single user mode.  Fortunately, I know a few things
>    about UNIX and forced the machine to continue the boot sequence by
>    going to multi-user mode by issuing an "init 2" command.  Well, when

     That is SysV usage.  I wouldn't have dared guess what it would do
to a BSD-derived system.  Thanks for the info.
     The correct way to change to multiuser mode in a BSD-derived UNIX
is to exit the single-user shell (i.e. hit ^D).  The system will then
process /etc/rc.

>    the machine finished starting the system services, I was left with 
>    a login panel and a cursor that the window manager had no control 
>    over.  In fact, the keyboard was locked also.

     Well, I can't explain this, but I'm certainly not surprised to
see weird things happening after you started up a second copy of init.
>
>    I then tried to boot again, this time interrupting the boot sequence
>    in the ROM monitor.  I executed:
>
>        b sd(0,0,0)
>
>    which left me in single user mode again, executed an "init 2" to start

     Again, this is *not* the right thing to do.  However, when you
have the ROM monitor prompt, check the system parameters ("p" if I
remember right.)  A default boot command like

b sd sdmach -s

is what you normally would enter if you *wanted* to start up in single-
user mode.  If the ROM monitor's current default boot parameters are
set such that they result in a command equivalent to the above, then
you'll need to change those values to give you what you want.  The
"-s" is the part that results in single-user mode as opposed to the
normal startup into multiuser mode.

>    multi-user boot, and viola', I'm up and running, with control of the 
>    cursor and keyboard, I might add.
>
>    But what is the problem?  I think that it may have to do with a non-
>    existant network, but I am just guessing.
>
>    FLAMES ON:
>
>      [flame deleted, but my sympathies left in  --SJB]
>
>    FLAMES OFF:
>
>    I've just about had it the total lack of support from NeXT.  Will 
>    somebody please help me.
>
>    Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>								- Max
> 
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>William R. Herndon                              
>Secure Computing Technology Corp.                  
>						Once you've had black, 
>herndon@sctc.com				you'll never go back...NeXT
>(612) 482-7431 			
>
>  


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
                                  Systems Programming
                                  Northern Illinois University
                                  DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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