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 on another

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?

2005-03-09 Thread Joseph Koshy
execve(), and at the start of init. The kernel print statement is shown, however the init statement is not. Any clues? 1) Does the execve() invocation of 'init' succeed (errno == 0)? 2) What is the value of 'init_path'. Which executable is finally selected to serve as 'init'? 3) Does