[comp.os.minix] stuck in root

kimery@wdl1.UUCP (Sam Kimery) (04/13/87)

/ wdl1:comp.os.minix / kpk@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) / 11:38 am  Apr 11, 1987 /

>An earlier posting referred to logging in as a normal user, changing to
>superuser, and changing back to user.  Further control-D's left him stuck
>with the superuser prompt.
>
>The reason:
>    You have unmounted the diskette with the "login" program.  A similar
>behavior is exhibited by deleting "login" from the diskette where it resides,
>and then booting.
 
Well not quite.  Everything except / resides on /dev/hd1.  / itself resides
on the ramdisk.  No floppies involved.




			Sam Kimery
			kimery@ford-wdl1
			sun!wdl1!kimery

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