Re: infinity loop when booting
On Wed, 15 May 2002, tilman utz wrote:
> hello list,
>
> recently I installed woody from cds on my machine (i386, qwertz-kbd,
> bios-clock on GMT from previous linux (suse6.4) installations).
>
> All went on quite smoothly, until after configuring the root password
> and a default user. after displaying the message 'loading
> /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz' thee system ran into an infinity loop of
> setting timezone and whether one wishes to have md5 passwords and a
> shadow file.
>
> Except for that the systems seems to be running ok (i.e. I'm able to
> switch to another console and log in either as root either as user).
>
> Any helping hint would be greatly appreciated
> thanks
> tilman
>
You can use a boot floppy setup. Make sure you point to http.us.debian.org.
The base-confg package obtained in this manner has been fixed. Presumably the
fix has propagated to other mirrors but you never know since woody seems to
be in a deep freeze.
-walter
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