From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 10:38:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA05163 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 10:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05158 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 10:38:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCALHOST (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA06031; Fri, 17 May 1996 10:41:02 -0700 Message-Id: <199605171741.KAA06031@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu: Host LOCALHOST didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: zoogy@cris.com (Chad Shackley) cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD not starting In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 May 1996 17:34:18 EDT." <199605160033.UAA27001@darius.cris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 10:41:01 -0700 From: Doug White Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Today I went to login to the more problematic of my 2 freebsd machines, and > it told me something like too many processes or not enough processes or > something. I had never seen that before. I tried to login again and the > machine hung, so I rebooted it. When it tried to come back up, it > automatically started the sysinstall program, and now every time it comes > up, that's what it does. Wierd! Did you leave the boot floppy in the disk drive? :-) My guess would point to something in /etc/rc. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major