Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Cannot login as root (transcripts)
From: ryanph@mrl.dsto.gov.au
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:30:15 +1100
Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organisation

This is a series of transcripts which my failed installation of Linux 
resulted in.

Firstly I show the transcript of what happens when I try to boot from the 
'boot' floppy created by 'doinstall'.

I then give a transcript (less some of the softlanding guff) of the 
installation on the /dev/hda2.

If anyone has any ideas as to why this does not work, or ways to fix the 
problem, I would be most appreciative.

Phil Ryan
Melbourne

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serial driver version 3.1 with AUTO_IRQ enabled
ttys0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
ttys1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is 16450
8 virtual consoles
lp_init: lp1 exists (0)
scsi: 0 hosts
scsi: detected 0 scsi disks 0 tapes 0 CD-ROM drives total
memory: 7152k/8192k available (544k kernel, 384k reserved, 112k data)
floppy drives: fd0 is 1.2M, fd1 is 1.44M
sock_init: initializing family 1 (AF_UNIX)
sock_init: initializing family 2 (AF_INET)
loopback device init
Warning WD8013 board not found ar i/o = 280.
hda:
	part 1 start 39 size 109161 end 109199
	part 2 start 109200 size 128232 end 237431
Partition table OK
Linux version 0.99.pl2-55 (root@softland) 01/02/93 22:50:30
Jan 26 13:02:38 init[1]: version 2.0 booting
/bin/touch: cannot execute binary file
none on /proc type proc (defaults)
Jan 26 13:02:30 init[1]: Entering runlevel: 6
_setutent: Can't open utmp file: No such file or directory
	[this message repeated 3 times]
SoftLanding Software ()....

softland login: root
_setutent: Can't open utmp file: No such file or directory
	[repeated]
No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh".
_setutent: Can't open utmp file: No such file or directory
	[repeated 3 times]
softland login:
	[etcetera, etcetera...]
 
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here is the partition table prior to doinstalling

		Boot	Begin	End	Blocks	Id	System
/dev/hda1	*	1	360	54580+	6	DOS 16bit >= 32M
/dev/hda2		351	761	64116	81	Linux/MINIX

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here are the messages from the "doinstall /dev/hda2" (after doing the "mkfs 
/dev/hda2 64116" to install a file system on the second partition):

(small install)
(disk a2)

Installing image...done
Installing bin4...done
Installing faq...done
Installing sc...done
Installing shlibs...done
Installing zoneinfo...done

(disk a3)
MINIX-fs magic match failed
[MS-DOS FS Rel. alpha.8, FAT 12, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=000]
[me=0xf9, cs=1, #f=2, fs=1, fl=7, ds=15, de=224, data=29, se=2400, ts=0]
Installing base...done
Installing comms...stdin is not in gzip format
done
Installing dosemu...stdin is not in gzip format
done
Installing efsprogs...stdin is not in gzip format
done
Installing etc...stdin is not in gzip format
done
Installing getty...stdin is not in gzip format
done
Installing joe...done
Installing select14...done
Installing term099...stdin is not in gzip format
done
Installing vgalib...stdin is not in gzip format
done

(a4)
[MS-DOS etc...]
[me etc       ]
Installing bin...done
Installing devs...stdin is not in gzip format
done
Installing lilo...stdin is not in gzip format
done
Installing menus...stdin is not in gzip format
done
Installing ps...stdin is not in gzip format
done
Installing shadow...stdin is not in gzip format
done
Installing syslogd...stdin is not in gzip format
done
Installing syssetup...stdin is not in gzip format
done
Installing zafix...tar: archive - EOF not on block boundary
done
Do you have a 387 or a 486?  <y>
... does the new floppy...
modem? n
mouse? y type? 5
comm port for mouse? 1

Please stand by...
Chown: /usr/man/man? : no such file or directory
Chmod: /usr/man/man? : no such file or directory

...
installation complete
now boot with this disk

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Thanks in advance for any assistance

Phil Ryan
Melbourne
(attempting to become a Linuxer)

* these opinions are entirely my own *