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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
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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.