Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 18:19:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Login at boot? Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960714181051.164100A-100000@homer27.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960713185646.1065F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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> > I'm new to unix and to FreeBSD. I just installed the system on half of my > > hard drive with the dual boot option. It seems to work fine. However, upon > > boot, I don't get a login prompt. Rather, I am just root from the get-go. > > This doesn't seem right to me. Furthermore, when I do log in, I get: > > > > NO LOGINS -- System going down at 16:00 > > Somehow /etc/nologin got dropped and you need to remove it. Boot to single > user mode (with -s) and delete it. > > Did you turn the machine off when running shutdown at any point? > I always do the shutdown, even though I hear Cntl-Alt-Del will work too. I use "shutdown -h now", and wait for the "press any key to reboot" message, then I off the power. I tried booting with -s option, and found that I have few commands at my disposal (i.e., no man pages) and I am also denied access to the file /etc/nologin. "su" is also not available when I single-user boot. I can delete the file when logged in as root, but then it reinstates itself when I reboot. This is only one of many problems I have had, including no login prompt on boot, my atapi CD-ROM isn't recognized, my lpd daemon has to be re-activated manually with ever print..... it think all the problems are the result of using an atapi CD-ROM boot floppy from the 2.1.0 release to install from the Walnut Creek 2.0.5 CD. The install was not very clean. Thanks for the help!
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