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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:08:46 -0400
From: "Joel Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Hang after "init: starting /bin/rc"
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On 9/14/06, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> There is a little documented option in plan9.ini
>
> init=/386/bin/rc
>
> which will cause the kernel to spawn a shell rather than /386/bin/init
> bypassing /rc/bin/termrc.

I'll try that, thanks.

> It sounds like your venti is so sick that I would reccomend that you
> just tar off any data you want to keep and start again.

I never installed venti!  This is a fresh install of a fossil-only
system, so there's nothing to preserve.

Should I be looking at the possibility of hard disk failure?  Is there
an easy way to test for this?

--Joel