Re: Installing, then installing CDE

Martin Husemann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 03:40:16PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> The green startup messages change to grey and it says:
> 
> ````
> /rtc/rc.conf is not configure. M<ultiuser boot aborted.
> Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
> ````

That happens if you e.g. kill all of /etc/rc.conf.
To fix: press enter for /bin/sh, mount /, set your terminal type (depending
what your console is, probably: export TERM=wsvt25), then vi /etc/rc.conf
and check what went wrong.

To go multiuser, it needs

rc_configured=YES

Martin
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