From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 7 00:17:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 CB7B216B5FC; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 23:42:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpalmer@freebsd.org) Received: from noop.in-addr.com (noop.in-addr.com [208.58.23.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF8443D45; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 23:42:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gpalmer@freebsd.org) Received: from uucp by noop.in-addr.com with local-rmail (Exim 4.52 (FreeBSD)) id 1FnlC9-0000AR-8O; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:42:45 -0400 Received: from localhost.home.in-addr.com ([127.0.0.1]:59026) by rimmer.home.in-addr.com with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FnlBF-000BZx-EI; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:41:49 +0100 Message-ID: <448612BD.1010304@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:41:49 +0100 From: Gary Palmer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060528 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Tao References: <20060604001315.F41289-100000@as2.dm.egate.net> In-Reply-To: <20060604001315.F41289-100000@as2.dm.egate.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FREEBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: 6.1 kernel unable to find /dev ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:17:54 -0000 Brian Tao wrote: >On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Gary Palmer wrote: > > >>On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 11:35:29PM -0400, Brian Tao wrote: >> >> >>> errno 8 is ENOEXEC and 13 is EACCES... but: >>> >>> >>Silly question: /sbin/init has the "x" flag set, correct? It should be >>mode 0500 (i.e. -r-x------) >> >> > > Yep... > ># ls -ld / /sbin /sbin/init >drwxr-xr-x 21 root wheel 512 Jun 3 21:43 / >drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2560 May 4 18:05 /sbin >-r-x------ 1 root wheel 582560 May 4 18:05 /sbin/init > > This is the same /sbin/init that the 6.0 kernel has no problems >executing, but the 6.1's do (if booting into "safe" or noacpi mode). > > Hi Brian, The only other thing I can suggest is to boot single user and run a manual full fsck incase the metadata is confused somehow. Also it might be worthwhile checking that the MBR and partition tables are sane. Assuming that when you added the drives, you didn't change the kernel until after you started having problems, the only thing I can figure is there was some minor corruption somewhere. Regards