Subject: Re: /sbin/init failure
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
From: Samuel Lacas <Samuel.Lacas@trusted-labs.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/18/2005 09:32:08
Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:08:59PM +0200, Samuel Lacas wrote:
> 
>>Since yesterday's evening, my kernel (2.0 GENERIC) panics on boot with
>>
>>exec /sbin/init: error 20
>>exec /sbin/oinit: error 20
>>exec /sbin/init.bak: error 20
>>init: not found
>>panic: no init
>>
> Hm... not a directory? I'd boot with the "ask for different init etc." flag:
> 
>>boot netbsd -as
> and specify /rescue/init, and investigate.

Well, after some investigation, my "/sbin/init" is indeed no longer a 
directory; it is now a 2-Gigabyte file... I'm on the way to re-install 
everything from scratch.

Thank for your help,

sL