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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Makedev returns non-zero value Date: 7 Jan 1997 00:05:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5as40b$62r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32d1b459.84160753@nntp.world.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33745 alan@zed.com.au (Alan) wrote: > I then rebooted off the HD via the boot manager, and lo and behold, > FreeBSD starting booting, however, instead of completing to a login > screen of somekind, it went straith into the installation/setup > screen. Funny, i've read a report of that kind before, but still can't imagine how this would happen. Try booting with -s (at the Boot: prompt), so you'll go into single- user mode. Try to diagnose the problem, in particular, watch out for what file /etc/rc is. *plong* Ahem, no, i know what your problem is! Your /sbin/init is missing, so the kernel falls back to /stand/sysinstall. Best advise: reinstall. Your installation is seriously messed up for some reason. (Maybe a hardware problem, like bad RAM?) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)