From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 28 21: 4: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F83537B401 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 21:04:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail020.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail020.syd.optusnet.com.au [210.49.20.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1525643E4A for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 21:04:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottpenno@optusnet.com.au) Received: from jupiter (c16715.brodm1.vic.optusnet.com.au [210.49.159.81]) by mail020.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id gBT53rQ20993; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 16:03:53 +1100 Message-ID: <000501c2aef7$aa3636b0$519f31d2@jupiter> From: "Scott Penno" To: Cc: Subject: Problems starting init Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 16:03:45 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, Yesterday I grabbed the latest source for -stable, compiled and installed as I've done on a number of occasions in the past. Unfortunately this time things didn't go quite so smoothly. After building world and the kernel, I installed the new kernel and rebooted without a problem, then installed world and ran mergemaster. After rebooting the kernel appears to load OK, but when attempting to start init appears to be stuck in a loop. What I see is: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a ad0s1: type 0xa5, start 63, end = 39102335, size = 39102273 : OK start_init: trying /sbin/init The cursor then changes from high intensity to normal and just sits there. If I press Ctrl-Alt-Del, I see a couple of lines with waiting, syncing disks and the box reboots If I try and boot from kernel.old, the kernel only manages to display the Copyright message before a page fault occurs. A couple of other things I noticed. Upon booting with -v I see: Creating DISK ad0 ar: FreeBSD check1 failed ad0: