Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:53:16 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden <seanc@FreeBSD.org> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: init not loading? why? Message-ID: <20030328215316.GA8340@perrin.int.nxad.com> In-Reply-To: <20030328205419.GE44135@perrin.int.nxad.com> References: <20030328205419.GE44135@perrin.int.nxad.com>
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> 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
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