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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:58:22 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Wendell Wolfe <wwolfe@internetdevices.com>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sysinstall boot disk
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904142056590.18590-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <00a201be7fa0$35ec5c10$e9ec10ac@pc-wwolfe.internetdevices.com>

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On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Wendell Wolfe wrote:

> In the Crunch file the progs sysinstall is listed.  Can someone explain to
> me
> how the kernel knows to run the sysinstall program instead of init once it
> has booted.  If I am going about it the wrong way please let me know.
> I only want a boot floppy that runs sysinstall once it boots.

It simply tries to execute the following programs:

	/sbin/init
	/sbin/init.bak
	/sbin/oinit
	/stand/sysinstall

Your symptoms look like there is no init nor sysinstall on your MFS root.

Andrzej Bialecki

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