SCO Unix Startup Problems

[DrTony]

Startup problem. Suspect some root or stand files were overlaid accidentially, restored system backup to fix. Now have this problen...

(This is old SCO: OSR5.0.4)

Control-d to login normally hangs because Scologin does not start. If log in maintenance mode, then do:
shutdown -g0:0
answer 'y' to continue
press enter to reboot

System comes up in INIT 2 and can log in okay. If shutdown and power off...
The next power on comes up in INIT 0 and you have to warm boot again to get around it.

inittab is okay. Any ideas?

DrTony

 

[PHV]

Have you tried scologin disable and init 6 to see what happens ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[lorel]

If you have a mouse enable in the system and the mouse is disconnected the system will hang at reboot. This is something alse you could check

 

[DrTony]

Thank you lorel and PHV - I will try these.