Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:25:37 -1000 From: William Bierman <wbierman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: init troubles with custom install Message-ID: <f994b88005030400256800a718@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello. I have been endeavoring to create my own livecd which will mount a remote share from which to run scripts installing a ghost image onto a local hard drive. I realize this may be more trouble than it's worth, but I am doing it to easily assimilate new machines into a Beowulf cluster... so I think it is. I have done everything I can think of to do this properly: 1) I used the process defined in the bsdlabel man page for setting up the slices/partitions/labels/etc. (search for dd in the man page) 2) I extracted the ghost images, in the form of tarballs, to the /, /usr, and /var slices. There is a partition for /tmp, but empty. I also setup a 1Gb swap slice. These slices are setup to mirror how they would be if I were to use the standard fbsd install cd. Now, here's the problem.. the kernel loads, and I start getting a list of the devices it detects, and it reaches the point of 'Mounting root from "ufs:ad0s1a"', then locks up. Either init is not being called, or is stalling somewhere. I have disabled pnp in my BIOS settings, and I have a single 16G IDE hard disk to which these operations are being performed. I have tried the various options in the boot menu (single user, safe mode, verbose logging, etc.) and the only useful information I get is when in verbose logging mode, it reaches the halt point, and additionally says: start_init: trying /sbin/init then halts. Could anyone shed some light on this for me? I can provide whatever additional information may be necessary. Thanks! William
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