> Suggestions are welcome. In the meantime I am slowly trying to debug > this myself, mostly as a learning exercise. I've successfully built my > own bsd.rd (using the instructions on the release(8) man page) with the > intention of adding some debug output to narrow down where it's > getting stuck, but I don't know my way around the kernel code.
Minor progress: I have determined that the kernel gets at least as far as exec-ing the init process (more precisely, calling sys_execve in init_main.c). Not sure if that's useful or just obvious. If I have more time I will add more debug logging, e.g. in the userspace init program, to see how far things get. If nothing else, I'm learning a bit about the code. Details of how I figured out init_main.c calls sys_execve: I added a bunch of printfs to init_main.c in this commit: https://github.com/falsifian/src/commit/0373dda3ef3574fe605c6173067c6220d62ebaba With those changes, the last messages on the console (copied here by hand) are as follows YYY mountroot done. iwx0: could not read firmware ... iwx0: failed to load init firmware YYY waking up init YYY woke up init YYY start_init: done waiting YYY start_init: okay, here we go: calling sys_execve... -- James