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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX hangs on boot - HELP!!!!!!
Message-ID: <374@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 89 21:55:50 GMT
References: <1113@stech.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <1113@stech.UUCP> jlh@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes:
>When I try to boot A/UX, it displays the INIT SINGLE USER method and then
>goes haywire. The cursor moves to the middle of the screen; the "Welcome
>to A/UX" message is spaced funny; the TERM=(mac2) appears and I press ENTER
>but A/UX doesn't recognize it. Then it prints the # and hangs - it
>accepts no futher input. The only way out is the programmer's switch.
>
>Heaven help me - what have I done???

You've managed to get the console's stty settings wrong and then you've
got them saved in /etc/ioctl.syscon. There are a number of things you
can do:

	1)	enter 'stty sane' followed by a linefeed (what there's
		no line feed on your keyboard! try ^J :-)

		this should usually get you back to a sane state
		(you should enter ^J to the TERM=... prompt also)

	2)	from sash remove /etc/ioctl.syscon (ie 'rm /etc/ioctl.syscon')
		init will reboot it and set it to a sane state when the 
		system reboots



	Paul

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