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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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