Gary L.Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I'm trying to use YARD to create a boot/root floppy pair for | emergencies. The trouble is that I can't seem to get them to work and | I believe I'm missing something. The boot floppy works fine and | prompts me to insert the root floppy. That goes fine, i.e., it gets to | the login prompt. But at that point I'm stuck. The login "root", and | any login I try, yields the following message: | | login[12]: invalid password for `UNKNOWN' on tty1 [snip]
Thanks to a hint from another unsuccessful person trying to use YARD I was able to narrow down my problem. Turns out it was PAM. After reading the Bootdisk_Contents file I found a relevant discussion of PAM under the RH 5.x section. I uncommented the lines to include the necessary PAM files on the root floppy, adjusted them to fit the Debian 2.0 distribution (Debian 2.0 had newer library versions and used /usr/lib/security instead of /lib/security), and reran yard. When I booted from the resulting floppy set everything came up without a hitch and I was able to log in to my system without any trouble. The only hitch was I couldn't get the root floppy under 1.44MB unless I left out the /lib/modules/2.0.34/*/*.o files. Not a problem for me since, to the best of my knowledge, I've included everything in the kernel I need to do a restore from my SCSI tape and modify my disk partition, e.g., ext2 and MSDOS/vfat support. Later I can just create a utility floppy with the modules if I feel these files will be needed during a rescue operation. If anyone else is interested in my Bootdisk_Contents file let me know. If there's enough interest I'll post it to the list. Gary -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
