From owner-freebsd-small Wed Apr 14 12: 0:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (unknown [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C86157DA for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:00:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A3A0818C6; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:58:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CAC4992; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:58:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:58:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Wendell Wolfe Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall boot disk In-Reply-To: <00a201be7fa0$35ec5c10$e9ec10ac@pc-wwolfe.internetdevices.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Wendell Wolfe wrote: > In the Crunch file the progs sysinstall is listed. Can someone explain to > me > how the kernel knows to run the sysinstall program instead of init once it > has booted. If I am going about it the wrong way please let me know. > I only want a boot floppy that runs sysinstall once it boots. It simply tries to execute the following programs: /sbin/init /sbin/init.bak /sbin/oinit /stand/sysinstall Your symptoms look like there is no init nor sysinstall on your MFS root. Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message