From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 17:45:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom3-024.telepath.com [216.14.3.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C54937B43E for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:45:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 77404 invoked by uid 100); 22 Sep 2000 00:45:48 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14794.43964.388010.807725@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:45:48 -0500 (CDT) To: Mark Rowlands Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: init: /bin/sh terminated abnormally in /etc/rc after make world / cvsup in 4.1 In-Reply-To: <35247480@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Rowlands writes: > and now /etc/rc aborts inviting me to give the path to /bin/sh > > the new kernel has installed ok so what did I miss?......I have obviously > misunderstood /failed to read the right docs. Please cc to > rowlands_mark@hotmail.com And what does /etc/rc print *before* it offers you that choice? The usual reason is a file system that it couldn't fix/mount, and it tells you about it.