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From: rey@safn2.UUCP (rey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Installation wierdness
Summary: Install tape takes name of root device 70% of the time here.
Keywords: no tty
Message-ID: <1783@safn2.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 91 03:20:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: safn2.1783
References: <682@wrangler.WLK.COM>
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Organization: Southern Aluminum Finishing, Atlanta, GA
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In article <682@wrangler.WLK.COM>, bill@wrangler.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes:
> This one is absolutely bizarre, hopefully there's something very simple
> to get around it.
> 
> could not type in sda1.  There was nothing from the keyboard or to the
> screen from that point on.  I have been using the Televideo 955 console
> ever since forever, but back in the haze I remember Towers being fussy
> about their console (for no good reason since Vr3) so I grabbed an old
> ADDS Viewpoint, reset and navigated my way to the same place, same result.
> 
> The only thing that I have done with the install tape since the initial
> installation is turn the write-protect to the protected (from me) position

I about wore out my install tape Fri, restoring  my root partition.
I would mount the corrupted partition, copy stuff to floppy, then
think of another file I needed, before taking the big step of system
restore from 2/17/91. The first time this happened (wyse50) I noticed
the electrical tape on the keyboard cord and switched to another wyse50
and cable. What you describe happened several times. I just hit
the reset switch again and waited 15 min to get there again. I also
had "safe" on the tape. That is what I would do differently again.  
Take "safe" off the tape. Persistance paid off for me as the system is up
fine now. Tower 450/32 3.00.01. My root is sdb1. wyse50 was 9600 7E1/DTR.

This is an event I had dismissed as Gremlins. Then I see your post.

-- 
Reynolds McClatchey (Southern Aluminum Finishing Co, Atlanta, GA, USA)
Architectural Aluminum. Custom Fabrication. Paint, Powder Coating, Anodizing.
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