From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 28 19: 6:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A822237BADB for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 19:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@ds.net) Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by s1.ds.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA20293 for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 22:06:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 22:06:09 -0400 (EDT) From: jmutter To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PXE/Panic: no init Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG init: not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/oinit:/sbin/init.bak:/stand/sysinstall panic: no init I must be missing something here - I'm trying, and I stress trying, to boot this box from with completely from the network - no floppy, no cd, and a virgin local hard disk. So far I've managed to use a PXE enabled NIC (Intel Pro100) to load "pxeloader" which in turn loads a FreeBSD 4.0 kernel from an NFS mounted share. This same share was built by extracting "bin.??", it contains virtually the entire distribution, including /dev. What's missing here? /sbin/init and /stand/sysinstall both exist (under the root /data/bsdfs). It's getting frustruating - if anyone has done this before please share your experiences, I'd love to hear them. Thanks, Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message