Custom Bootdisk Problem

[Tim Buller <buller@math.ukans.edu>]

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Tim Buller wrote:

> I am using yard-1.15 to make a compressed root fs floppy for installation
> of the some new systems (hamm). I can write the image out, and it boots
> fine, but when I try to login as root (with no passwd) I get:
> 
> login[20]: invalid password for 'UNKNOWN' on 'tty1'
> 
> If I try to "CTRL-ALT-DELETE" it, I get "You don't exit; go away"

I have gotten past this problem by including all of the PAM libs on the
boot disks. Now, however, I get the following:

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login[xx]: unable to change tty '/dev/tty1' for user 'root'

Unable to change tty '/dev/tty1': bad file descriptor

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Ideas? TIA,

	Tim

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Tim Buller                                       buller@math.ukans.edu
Systems Specialist                               Office: Snow Hall 643
Department of Mathematics                          Voice: 785-864-7311
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045             Fax: 785-864-5255



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