I am in the process of replacing a failed disk drive on a server. It is an i386 machine, and has been running 7.0.1 for the past 18 months or so. It took a massive hammering from .ru and .cn addresses a couple of weeks back which finally did for the disk drive (which deserved a long-service medal anyway and was intended to be replace).
It lost /usr and /var, which were on separate partitions, but the rest was preserved and passed fsck checks when I got it back here and ran it single user. So I have copied over everything but /var and /usr onto a new, shiny, bigger disk, and re-installed all the /usr and /var files from the 7.0.1 distribution .iso, selectively from the .tgz sets using tar xvhpkfC. Before I install the disk in the server box (a 1U rack unit) I want to check that I'm not going to have to take it out again, because it's physically fiddly and tightly packed. So I've put it in an old system I have here where it is configured as wd2, and I try booting it with boot hd2a:netbsd -a. I get two issues: the first is an error report that libc.so.12 cannot be found (but it's there in /dev/wd2a); the second is that it reports that getty is repeating too quickly on /dev/console. It proceeds to displaying the date and time banner, but does not produce a login prompt. I have tried changing /etc/ttys in ways relating to stuff on the web reporting similar errors but to no avail. The /etc/ttys I have on the new disk was dimply copied over from the old disk, but I tried changing to match what is on the old machine. I have vague memories of seeing a similar problem around 15 years ago, but I have no real grasp of what the issue may be. -- Steve Blinkhorn <st...@prd.co.uk>
