[aklug] Re: NetBSD on Cobalts

I seem to remember someone saying the OS is on the hard drive. If this
is the case you should be able to chroot and make any changes need to
boot.

This would require removing the drive from the box. Not sure how easy
that's gonna be. Hope this helps.

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On Sep 11, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I seem to have a broken Qube.
>
> I decided to put Webmin on it before playing w/ the ttys thinking that
> if I screwed up the tty stuff, it would give me an alternate way in.
> Didn't work out so well.
>
> Got webmin in and it seemed to be running OK. I was able to access the
> webmin stuff over the network OK. I then let it alter rc.local to have
> it start automatically on boot. This is the ONLY thing I let it do. It
> just put in a line to do "/etc/webmin start" which is what I entered
> from the command line to start webmin initially anyway. I then rebooted
> to see that it was working OK.
>
> It wasn't. Seems to stop or hang at the point where the little 2 line
> display on the back of the Qube says it's running "local", which I
> assume means rc.local. At least that seems to match up with what else is
> displayed during boot. The second time I attempted to boot it, I let it
> sit close to an hour. Nothing.
>
> Is it possible it needs more memory to get past this? The box only has
> 32 MB of ram. It seemed to be running webmin OK before I restarted it.
> It wasn't the fastest webserver I've ever seen, but it was getting by.
> I'm wondering if during the boot process, it's getting stuff starting up
> that uses more ram initializing things than after its up and running and
> things settle down.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jim G
>
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Received on Sat Sep 11 12:26:03 2010