From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 3 8:41:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.internet.dk (smtp.internet.dk [194.19.140.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46DB037B43C for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 08:41:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from idkadm@internet.dk) Received: (from root@localhost) by smtp.internet.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian/GNU) id f43FfYo17171 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.AVP; Thu, 3 May 2001 17:41:34 +0200 Received: from ntserver (gate.internet.dk [194.19.140.7]) by smtp.internet.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id f43FfX117163 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 17:41:33 +0200 Message-ID: <000b01c0d3e7$87fdfed0$1200a8c0@teledane.dk> From: "Service" To: Subject: Starting /sbin/init, but nothing happens Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 17:41:30 +0200 Organization: Internet Danmark ApS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 Disposition-Notification-To: "Service" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by smtp.internet.dk id f43FfX117163 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please cc to this account, as my home mailserver/gateway where I'm subscribed is the subject of my troubles. I've gotten hosed my root partition on my mailserver, arnold, (unexpected softupdate inconsistency), and most ended up in lost+found. The machine doesn't have a floppy, so I mounted the disks on the scsicontroller of my build-machine. I mounted the disks on /arnold and /arnold/var (usr is symlinked on the var disk) and did a make buildkerne KERNCONF=ARNOLD make installkernel KERNCONF=ARNOLD DESTDIR=/arnold and make buildworld make installworld DESTDIR=/arnold mergemaster DESTDIR=/arnold It all seems like it is putting the stuff the right places. Then I put the disks back. I can boot, boot -v shows at last something aprox like "starting (or is it 'trying to') /sbin/init", but nothing happens after that. No disk activity, or lights on the NIC. ctrl-alt-delete shuts the kernel down again, with the normal "syncing disks". What could be missing? Is it a problem that the destination machine, arnold is a 586, while the compiling machine, gina is a 686? The kernel is customised with the proper cpu-class; I know, because gina accidentionally got the kernel for arnold, and couldn't boot. Btw, I tell to the family: Arnold is not dead, but he's unconsious. (Alive, but can't boot) Then he'll become consious, but he will not be himself. (Boots, but won't function as mailserver etc) Last step will be retraining to perform his duties in the society (installing mailserver, samba, squid etc) The prognosis is still fairly optimistic. Leif Again, please cc to this account, as my mailserver is down. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message