[net.unix-wizards] swapping problem on a v7 11/23

dfh (07/22/82)

  I have a v7 system running on an 11/23 with 1 RL02 drive, and recently
received an aditional RL02 drive.  To install the 2nd drive, all I did
was change NDEV in rl.h from 1 to 2, and make the appropriate nodes
in /dev.  This new kernal works fine.  I can move files to and fro.
I decided that I wanted to swap on the second drive to help speed things
up a bit.  In c.c, I changed "swapdev(0,0)" to "swapdev(0,1).  This new
kernal barfs terribly when booting:
  1) It appears to fork the single user shell, but I do not get the
     familiar '#' prompt.
  2) What I do get is the message "@U: not a valid identifier", and then
     it appears to fork the multi-user shell.  (I get the ';login:'
     prompt).  When I try to login, It gets as far as 'You have mail',
     and it complains again: "@U: not a valid identifier", and issues
     the ';login:' prompt once more.
     (I presume that it tried to form the shell at this point.)  Could
     the problem be in /bin/sh ?  In /etc/init ?


If ANYBODY has experienced this problem; knows or even suspects where
the problem(s) lies, please call me, or send me mail.

					David Hinnant
					N.C. Educational Computing Service
					(919) 549-0671
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