hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) (06/09/88)
Could anyone help with a couple of questions I have on Microport 386.... 1. The system is set up to autoboot. If there is a power failure, the system boots to a point, then asks if I want to save a core image. Where do I disable that so it will boot all the way by itself? 2. Upon repowering the system, there is the prompt "boot:". If nothing is typed, it times out and autoboots. If I hit a return or type /unix it boots all the way to multiuser. All this is normal and great. But is there something I can type to make it just boot to single user mode? 3. If I log in with the system console, all characters beyond 80 columns are truncated. Is there a way to change it from NOAUTOWRAP to AUTOWRAP? It is an IBM monochrome monitor and Hercules adapter. Thanks in advance.
sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) (06/11/88)
In article <1092@bellboy.UUCP> hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) writes: > >Could anyone help with a couple of questions I have >on Microport 386.... >1. The system is set up to autoboot. If there is a power failure, > the system boots to a point, then asks if I want to save a > core image. Where do I disable that so it will boot all the > way by itself? I havn't got Microport up right now or I'd check the exact details, but if you scrummage around in /etc, with special attention to the system initialization scripts you should see where it's calling the program to do this check. As I remember you can simply comment it out. If memory serves it's called check something, possibly checkboot. Anyhow a few echo message's in appropriate spots should help you find it. Good hunting. -- Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532
hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) (06/12/88)
In article <1794@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) writes: >In article <1092@bellboy.UUCP> hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) writes: >> >>Could anyone help with a couple of questions I have >>on Microport 386.... > >>1. The system is set up to autoboot. If there is a power failure, >> the system boots to a point, then asks if I want to save a >> core image. Where do I disable that so it will boot all the >> way by itself? > >I havn't got Microport up right now or I'd check the exact details, but if >you scrummage around in /etc, with special attention to the system >initialization scripts you should see where it's calling the program to do >this check. As I remember you can simply comment it out. I thought I had done a good job in looking for the obvious, but per the attached email I got, it was right there under my nose. Thanks Bryan. -- Greg From: bryan@award.UUCP (Bryan Richter) The file is /etc/dumpsave, and if you look in the first while loop you will find the infamous question of whether or not to save the dump image. Inside of that while loop I placed an echo of a message to the effect 'not saving dump image' to remind myself, and then did an 'exit 0'. We have not had any problems with this so far and We have had a couple of power failures since I changed the script. good luck --bryan