init troubles with custom install

2005-03-04 Thread William Bierman
Hello. I have been endeavoring to create my own livecd which will mount a remote share from which to run scripts installing a ghost image onto a local hard drive. I realize this may be more trouble than it's worth, but I am doing it to easily assimilate new machines into a Beowulf cluster... so I

Re: init troubles with custom install .. perhaps a kernel bug?

2005-03-04 Thread William Bierman
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:25:37 -1000, William Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I have been endeavoring to create my own livecd which will > mount a remote share from which to run scripts installing a ghost > image onto a local hard drive. I realize this may be more trou

Can someone please help me? Why does init fail to start?

2005-03-09 Thread William Bierman
Hello. I setup the partitions/slices correctly, extracted the correct files to each, and installed the kernel and initialized the boot sector. The kernel loads succesfully but is unable to succesfully hand over control to the init process. I established this by putting print debug statements at

Re: Can someone please help me? Why does init fail to start?

2005-03-10 Thread William Bierman
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:58:09 +, Joseph Koshy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried with the default, but also tried just "/sbin/init" -- which I > > have verified to exist. > > > > > 3) Does 'init' run on a regular FreeBSD kernel? > > > > It's not the default kernel, but the same kernel boots