From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 23:09:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA15971 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.143]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA15940 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00924; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:10:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Keith Ng cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <323D5D61.4666@caravelle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Keith Ng wrote: > I get another installation error after I install the bin distribution . > It says MAKEDEV is returning a non-negative number. The system does > boot but I could not get the login instead it drops you to shell prompt. Could you be more specific as to the error messages you're getting, and why you're dropping to single user mode? You have to really break stuff to get it to drop to a prompt right off. My guess is that the drive devices didn't get made right. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major