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From: andrewd@cs.tamu.edu (Andrew Ted Duchowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: "blank" boot - help!
Summary: cube boots to blank screen
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Date: 16 Feb 91 09:30:53 GMT
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I must have done something rather silly.  I have two internal drives
in my cube, effectively 3 partitions: /dev/sd0a, /dev/sd1a, /dev/sd1b.
This is my last command sequence:

# shutdown now
# mount
  /dev/sd0a / ...
  /dev/sd1a /mnt ...
  /dev/sd1b /Users ...
# umount /dev/sd1a
# mv /mnt /sys
# mount /dev/sd1a /sys
# vi /etc/fstab /* to reflect changes */
# ^D

where /dev/sd1a contains most of my NeXT... stuff, ie. NeXTApps, NeXTAdmin
and so on.

Now when I boot all I get is the blank grey screen.  I set the verbose
boot flag through the monitor, so I see it booting ok.  Besides saying that
there is no network (standalone, so that checks), and that autonfsmount
didn't run (I guess it shouldn't, standalone), the boot seems ok.
But when it tries to go to multiuser, all I get is the blank screen. No
login window, no nothin.  Even the power key doesn't do anything.
My guess is that somehow I screwed up my /etc/fstab and now all my
NeXT stuff doesn't mount.  I could probably fix this if I knew how
to boot to singleuser.

1. Any ideas on what I may have done wrong?
2. How can I boot to single user mode so that I can implement changes/fixes?

Thanks in advance,
Andrew.
andrewd@cs.tamu.edu

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