Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:45:01 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Thorsten Trampisch <thorsten@trampisch.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /sbin not on root partition, init_path does not work -> init not found Message-ID: <20020207134501.B6492@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0202071638180.14774-100000@otaku.freeshell.org>; from thorsten@trampisch.com on Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 04:41:08PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0202071638180.14774-100000@otaku.freeshell.org>
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 04:41:08PM +0100, Thorsten Trampisch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have the following problem:
> I had to upgrade a FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE box to 4.5-STABLE.
> I did a "make buildworld" "make buildkernel" and "make installkernel".
> After the following reboot the machine came up with /stand/sysinstall
>
> The system was not set up by me: I found out that /sbin
> is linked to another partition:
> disk1s1a: Root Partition
> disk1s1e: Partition with sbin on it
>
> I tried to "set init_path=disk1s1e:/sbin/init" at the loader prompt
> but this does not work at all.
>
> Because I only have a serial console and cannot access the machine physically
> I have to try it remotely. I do have to get it work.
>
> Here some Output from the boot screen:
>
> ----- START - before init_path set --------
>
> Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <COMPAQ BB00921B91 3B07> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> Enabled
> da0: 8678MB (17773524 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
> /stand/sysinstall running as init on serial console
>
> ----- END - before init_path set --------
>
>
> ----- START - after init_path set --------
>
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <COMPAQ BB00921B91 3B07> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> Enabled
> da0: 8678MB (17773524 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
> init: not found in path disk1s1e:/sbin/init
> panic: no init
>
>
> ----- END - after init_path set --------
>
> If I try an "ls disk1s1e:/sbin" at the loader prompt I get the correct
> entries of the /sbin directory including "init"-program.
>
> It would be great if someone could help me with this problem.
That's a good one. My first thought is to:
1) Let it boot into sysinstall,
2) Go to the fixit option and start the fixit floppy or CDROM,
3) Wipe the /sbin symlink,
4) Make /sbin a directory,
5) Mount /dev/da0s1e on /mnt2 or someplace out of the way,
6) Copy the contents of /mnt2/sbin to /sbin.
7) Copy anything else from /mnt2/sbin to the appropriate places,
8) Reboot.
--
Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu
| cjclark@jhu.edu
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