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Subject: Re: Can someone please help me? Why does init fail to start?
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> execve(), and at the start of init.  The kernel print statement is
> shown, however the init statement is not.

> Any clues?

1) Does the execve() invocation of 'init' succeed (errno == 0)?
2) What is the value of  'init_path'.  Which executable is finally selected to
     serve as 'init'?
3) Does 'init' run on a regular FreeBSD kernel?

... etc ...

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