On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:

> I upgraded to 1.3 today, and I have some questions.  I followed the 
> How-to pretty closely, but at one point I didn't notice that I was in 
> multi-user mode and not single-user.  At that point I did a "sh MAKEDEV 
> all".  Later I rebooted single-user and re-did "sh MAKEDEV all".
> 
	That should not be a problem.

> Anyway, when I boot I get the messages:
> 
> swapctl: /dev/sd2b: Device busy
> mount_ffs: /dev/sd2a on /: specified device does not match mounted device
> 
> How can I make this go away?
> 
	Can you send the output of 'dmesg' and 'disklabel sd2'?

> Also, even before I upgraded, back when I was using 1.3_alpha, I would 
> get (and I still get):
> 
> savecore: /netbsd: kvm_dump_mkheader: Read: Invalid argument
> Jan 17 18:45:56 hussar savecore: /netbsd: kvm_dump_mkheader: Read: 
> Invalid argument
> 
> What does this mean and how can I make it go away?
> 
	It probably means savecore (whcih checks for kernel dumps) is
	having trouble reading the kernel.
	Are you booting the kernel called 'netbsd' in the root filesystem?

> As it turns out, my /etc-settings-angst was justified.  Somehow or 
> another I managed to disappear my account on the machine, and I can no 
> longer telnet in as root (or myself, because I lost my account).
> 
	When installing the /etc set, its always a good idea to
	'cp -r /etc /etc.safe' so you can reference back.
	(OK, that was 'shut stable door after horse has bolted advice' :)
	Edit /etc/group & remove 'root' from the wheel line, to allow you
	to su from a normal account, then run 'vipw' and copy the root
	line & change the home directory and uid (uid is first :0:,
	homedir is ':/root')

> My system: IIci running GENERICSBC #56 and NetBSD 1.3. Root drive is a 
> Quantum Maverick 540MB with 24MB swap partition, a 2MB MacOS partition 
> and the rest NetBSD.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Sean.
> 
> 
>                  T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
> 71410.25@compuserve.com            TSSchulze@aol.com
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