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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.us.world.net!news.aus.world.net!usenet From: alan@zed.com.au (Alan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Makedev returns non-zero value Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 09:12:24 GMT Organization: AUSNet Services Lines: 31 Message-ID: <32f659ad.874188@nntp.world.net> References: <32d1b459.84160753@nntp.world.net> <5as40b$62r@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.25.232.48 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34907 On 7 Jan 1997 00:05:31 GMT, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >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. >*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?) > >-- I tried, and tried re-installing but to no avail. I installed OS/2 on the partition I was going to install FreeBSD in, and it installed successfully. I then installed Linux 1.1.59, and yep, it installed successfully too. If it is a RAM problem, it sure is fussy. The only thing I can think of is that I grabbed the bin files from 2 different ftp sites. At one stage I even started grabbing 2.2 versions instead of the 2.1.6 files, but I thought I'd identified and replaced all the wrong versions. I also thought FreeBSD wouldn't have installed at all if I had a mix of 2.2 and 2.1.6 binaries. I'll grab the latest distribution/CD before trying again. Anyway, thanks for your help.