Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!e40-008-11.MIT.EDU!vikki From: vikki@e40-008-11.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: *!HELP!* What could be wrong here?? Date: 9 Mar 1993 05:06:54 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1nh8leINN1h5@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <1nghtqINNm21@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: e40-008-11.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 Hi again: Here's an update on my troubles (if you're into it). I believe that the host is actually booting to the point where it loads init, but init is simply not doing anything. I can sit there and type stuff at the console and get it to carrige return but it doesn't appear to be affecting the machine any. I tried replacing the copy of init on the system from one off of an old fixit floppy and instead of just zombieing like before I saw a quick panic message go by and then the thing reboots. Putting the old init back in place returned the symptoms back to zombification at the time of loading init. Removing/replacing renaming /etc/rc has no effect on anything but since using a different copy of init produced a different result I am concluding that the root filesystem is getting mounted (it actually does say this when I boot with a pre-Julian SCSI kernel) and that things are going off from there when init tries to start running. Is it simply time to set up my disk again from scratch? Normally I wouldn't hesitate to do this but I'm having a hard time justifying it because I can find no real proof that this is what's needed, other than the fact that I can't think of anything else to try... -John jackson@a1.mec.mass.edu or vikki@athena.mit.edu