[rescue] The onyx godness

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Fri Jan 10 21:53:37 CST 2003


On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:39:55PM -0500, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 22:28, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > Dan Sikorski <me at dansikorski.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Tell ya what, I'll trade you both for an Onyx ;-)
> > > 
> > > Hmmm... somehow that doesn't sound like too great of a deal......
> > > ...for either of us, really..
> > > 
> > 
> > Nuts.  Can't blame a guy for trying :)
> 
> So, while we're on the subject...
> 
> I was just playing around with the onyx (sans mouse), and when it boots,
> it just comes up through what seems to be a normal booting process, but
> stops at a line that say something to the effect of System Ready (don't
> remember the actual words) and i get no login prompt or anything.  I was
> rather expecting a graphical login screen much like the ones i get on
> the o2 and indigo.  Should not be expecting that?  Right now, i'm
> figuring that the OS was FUBAR'ed before i got the machine, and that i
> need to install a fresh copy of 6.5.

A graphical login screen is what happened at the end of booting the Onyx
at school.  But of course, it could always have been configured to do
something else.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd


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