On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:38:47 +0100, auto709563 wrote
> I have installed 4.4 on amd64.
> 
> When I boot up I get a pretty dmesg, followed by:
> 
> Feb 9 18:52:43 init: cannot stat /etc/login.conf: No such file or 
> directory
> sh: /etc/rc: No such File or directory
> Feb 9 18:52:45 init: /etc/pwd.db: No such file or directory
> Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:
> 
> After this, I get a shell, but nothing but / seems mounted.
> 
> I could not save the dmesg.

Very strange.  You have a kernel, and you have init(8), but it looks like
looks like /etc is missing or damaged.  Did you, by chance, create a separate
partition for /etc?  That could explain this, as /etc is needed in order to
boot multi-user.

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