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On 2/10/2013 3:22 PM, David Demelier wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've just cross compiled FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE i386 for an embedded device.
> After some days and reboot, I just realized that the device does not boot
> anymore, so I've plugged a serial cable and saw a panic with error :
>
> exec /rescue/init: error 13
>
> I checked the permissions and noticed that permissions are only set to read
> on this file :
>
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  5576 10 Feb 2013 rescue/init
>
> On my laptop it's -r-xr-xr-x. I have installed it to my embedded device
> with standard targets such as make installworld and make distribution,
> which kind of steps set these permissions ?
>
> Cheers,
>

Just a quick guess, the file system is mounted as noexec.