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Subject: Re: Can someone please help me? Why does init fail to start?
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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!