truely incredible. never execute: chmod -R g-w /etc or be very careful modifying permissions under /etc. not sure exactly what locked up the boot sequence, but running this command sure did fix it: pkgchk -R /a -a -f -n -v this resets the permissions to files found in /var/sadm/install/contents, but relative to /a (had to boot off the cdrom). this is likely a command worth remembering. rf -----Original Message----- usually 'system comming up' precedes the login prompt on a boot. the kernel loads and the device tree loads, but then suddenly, after plumbing interfaces and setting the hostname, this 420 running solaris8 shifts all characters to the far right of my screen in a single column, until finally hanging. i've waited, but nothing moves. i broke to ok> and booted off the cdrom -s but i can discovery nothing wrong. same results with boot -s, boot -sv, boot -v. i've tried adding 'echo' statements to every rc script, but i never get any output to screen. how could this be and what to do to fix it?? rf __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/Received on Mon Jul 16 22:55:56 2001
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