Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:44:16 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Sean Chittenden <seanc@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: init not loading? why? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030328174335.10348D-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20030328215316.GA8340@perrin.int.nxad.com>
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > 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 mkdir(2) on / is not going to work if / is readonly. The kernel actually tries to do a vop_mkdir() already, I think. The eventual solution is probably a rootfs (blaim mux). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
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