Boot time, init? getty repeated too many times

Ryan Merrick sandshrimp at comcast.net
Sat Mar 6 15:52:58 PST 2004


Peter Leftwich wrote:
> Hi everyone and happy Friday.
> 
> When I boot my FreeBSD box, I think init is giving an error that
> getty repeated too many times and that it will halt for 30 seconds.
> 
> Is there a simple fix for this?  I am not getting a login prompt and
> AFAIK the other vtty's are not accessible.  The system locks up.
> 
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H,

Review your #/etc/ttys and comment out any questionable lines.


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