From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 08:25:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9408016A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:25:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32DE343D1F for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:25:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wbierman@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so545929rnf for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:25:37 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZccgUMISTX5i97voYXyI7jNkiSCuTSdT1HPMJgg2lu7xCbajPeu2Ff87o57M7gpR8Tl+MK9L8SQyZCRnwftvKThmPANgHsfYh2HEfQYXWVXtacIAxDohdRZbM9eiCJwEouT1Mfj34iG++hUZuaIIUbc9wEm7pkEU3s2gGVER4Mg= Received: by 10.38.78.56 with SMTP id a56mr36404rnb; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:25:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.88.21 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:25:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:25:37 -1000 From: William Bierman To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: init troubles with custom install X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: William Bierman List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:25:38 -0000 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