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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 04:49:06 -0500
From: Brian Peterson <brianp@apocalypse.org>
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To: brianp@apocalypse.org, durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us
Subject: Re: Freezes at /sbin/init
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Hi,

Thanks for the response!


    From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
    ...
    As to why /sbin/init won't run, more information would be a real
    help. When you mount the drive from the fixit floppy, does /sbin
    exist? Does init exist? Can you fsck all the partitions on the
    hard drive successfully?

Yes, they both exist on the hard drive. Fsck runs ok; at least,
it does phase 1-5 without complaint, and goes on to tell me how
many files I have, the disk fragmentation, etc.
This happens for /, /usr, and /var. (All my filesystems.)


    I should mention that daemons are started from /usr/local/etc/rc.d.
    This directory contains Bourne shell scripts to fire the various
    daemons, and such scripts should also understand the arguments
    "start" and "stop". 

    Are you sure your installation completed? Things will get very
    strange if you bail out early.

Guess what? I don't HAVE anything in /usr/local   !!!
Certainly not a /usr/local/etc/rc.d
(There IS a /usr/local directory, though. It's just empty.) 

There are lots of files in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib, etc.

I poked around some more. In /usr/local/share/games,
there are some directories (fortune, larn, etc) with nothing
in them, either.

When I did the install, it told me "Congratulations, you have
installed FreeBSD successfully" (or something like that),
so I assume the installer thought it was done.

Is the stuff in /usr/local something that can be installed
on top of the old install, or do I have to do it all over again?
(I have to do an ftp install.)

If I need to do the install again, what version of FreeBSD and
what installation set would you recommend for a minimal install,
that would be most likely to have all the pieces I need???

Thanks again!

Brian






    On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Brian Peterson wrote:

    > Greetings,
    > 
    > I just installed the i386/4.2-RELEASE/ version of FreeBSD, with the
    > minimal install. (via ftp)
    > The system freezes on booting, and when I boot -v from the "fixit" floppy,
    > The last message displayed is "start_init: Trying /sbin/init"
    > 
    > I am able to run the fixit floppy, mount the hard drive,
    > see files, and even write to files with cat>filename.
    > 
    > I see that there are no files or directories named /etc/init*
    > on the hard drive - no /etc/init.d, no /etc/inittab.
    > Does FreeBSD even use those files? If not, what do I need to check for?
    > 
    > 

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