Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:44:32 -1000 From: William Bierman <wbierman@gmail.com> To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can someone please help me? Why does init fail to start? Message-ID: <f994b88005031022444c6fa810@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <84dead72050310055826fae2b3@mail.gmail.com> References: <f994b88005030917312f3ab25b@mail.gmail.com> <84dead720503092035629ea5fb@mail.gmail.com> <f994b8800503100018447c73c1@mail.gmail.com> <84dead72050310055826fae2b3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:58:09 +0000, Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> wrote: > > I tried with the default, but also tried just "/sbin/init" -- which I > > have verified to exist. > > > > > 3) Does 'init' run on a regular FreeBSD kernel? > > > > It's not the default kernel, but the same kernel boots on another > > machine which I setup with the install CD. > > Two things I can think of are: > > 1) The console is somehow messed up (no devfs?) so you > aren't seeing any console printfs from processes (kernel > printfs use a different [primitive] output mechanism. > Is this 5-X or 4.X? /dev was missing from my image. There ought to be some sort of output of that problem if you're in a verbose boot! Heh. Thanks!
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