According to Shaggy Im-erbtham: While burning my CPU.
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> Booting up my Slackware 3.5 machine, I get the following:
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> ........
> Updaing module dependencies for Linux 2.0.34:
> lp1 at .........
> CSLIP: ........
> SLIP ........
> PPP.......
> PPP Dynamic channel ......
> PPP line ........
> loading device 'eth0'
> ne.c:v1.10 ......
> NE*000 ethercard probe ....
> eth0: NE2000 found at......
> loading device 'eth1'
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
> gling multiuser
> bash#
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> Hereby, I type "exit" without quotes to resume the boot-up
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> Mounting remote file systems
> Starting daemons.....
> Loading the iBCD module
> Starting Samba
> Running gpm
> Welcome to Linux 2.0.34
> xxxx login:
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> The "bash#" was never there before, not until I starting tinkering with the
> initialization files to get Samba and X working. How can I get rid of it so
> I can get to login in one go?
Well i cant pinpoint just what you have changed, so i will explane how
slackware boots.
Firstly the file /etc/inittab is read, it reads the runlevel first, (normaly
runlevel 3), then si: is read, sysinit, normaly here the filesystems are
mounted, now your filesystems are mounted via /etc/rc.d/rc.S that sems to be
ok, then /etc/rc.M is executed, in rc.M your hostname is set and rc.inet1 is
read (your eth0 interface is defined there) so thats being read, then
rc.inet2 gets called, in rc.inet2 daemons are started, however now you get
"bash#" this indicates that a problem is either at the start of rc.inet2 or
the end of rc.inet1.
Check that what you have altered is correct, ie; "if statements" start with
an if and MUST end in an "fi"
example
if [ -f ${NET}/syslogd ]; then
echo -n " syslogd"
${NET}/syslogd & # Backgrounded to avoid an ugly notice from bash-2.0
echo -n " klogd"
${NET}/klogd
fi
Anything else will cause the script to "fail" and would exit the script,
thats possably why you get the "bash#" prompt.
If you cant find any mistake, send me (persoanly) rc.inet1 and rc.inet2
i will take a close look for you.
Hope this helps.
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> Thank you.
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> Shaggy
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Regards Richard.
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