From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 28 13:53:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB93137B401 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:53:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from perrin.int.nxad.com (internal.ext.nxad.com [69.1.70.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 507F043F85 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:53:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sean@perrin.int.nxad.com) Received: by perrin.int.nxad.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A63752105B; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:53:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:53:16 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden To: current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20030328215316.GA8340@perrin.int.nxad.com> References: <20030328205419.GE44135@perrin.int.nxad.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030328205419.GE44135@perrin.int.nxad.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-PGP-Key: finger seanc@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3849 3760 1AFE 7B17 11A0 83A6 DD99 E31F BC84 B341 X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-26.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Re: init not loading? why? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:53:19 -0000 > I recently purchased a new laptop HDD, tossed three partitions onto > the drive (/, /usr, and swap), newfs'ed them with UFS2, mounted the > new drive as a umass device, copied files over (tar), and now when I > boot with my new drive, the kernel is having problems launching > /sbin/init. For the life of me, I can't figure out why it's not > loading. After dropping to DDB, I don't see it in the process list > and I'm not getting any output other than notice that the kernel is > starting /sbin/init. Ah! Figured it out after reading through init's src: /dev didn't exist therefore the machine wouldn't start. No good. I may find a place to stick this got'cha in the docs or add an mkdir() call to init. -sc -- Sean Chittenden