On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> gboissie@ifhamy.insa-lyon.fr wrote:
> >  Hello every body, 
> > i am new there, and i'm having a strang probleme
> > 
> > when i boot in single user mode i can aswer the tset question by vt200 but
> > when i boot in multi users mode when i write vt220 the tset answer is
> > vt220 terminal unknown! so wath can i do (i've try vt100, and so on...)
> > i am using netbsd1.3.1 on a quadra 630 (on a scsi externel drive)
> > i've try mount -u / but tat did not solve my probleme.
> 
> Is your /usr partition mounted at the time?  It sounds like your termcap
> database is missing or corrupted.  I think that it is normally in
> /usr/share, tho.
> 
If /usr wasn't mounted, /usr/libexec/getty would not be run and the boot
process would halt. I've run into this many times while shuffling around
partitions and drives. The time the lettering scheme for partitions was
changed was especially frustrating. ;)
-Xiamin