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Re: Weird things



Stas Bekman <sbekman@iil.intel.com> wrote:

>  First I have mounted ext2 linux diskette and when I cd to it and made ls
>  I've got kernel panic message . I could go to another window and do ls 
>  and few other things but I couldn't do no sync no reboot.
>  So the only choice was hard reboot who ate half of my boot partition
>  (/etc /boot has gone after e2fsck) I have restored them from backup 
>  Now I can boot linux but I have other weirdness: I get login prompt
>  and every time I type login name at the moment I press Enter I get the 
>  login process respawned. So I can't enter the password and login
>  
>  Any ideas what was the problem with diskette (Is it possible that some broken
>  diskette crush the whole system?) 

Is the fd driver compiled in the kernel or as a module? What device did you use
for mount? Is it (/dev/fd0 ?) a valid floppy device?

>  and what is wrong with login process? 

Run /bin/login from command prompt and see what happens. It could also be that
the *getty binary is corrupted.

Regards,

Evgeny


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