>> /dev/console might be messed up.  Is it correctly made?
>> 
>> Tohru Nishimura
>
> Yes, "sh MAKEDEV all" was run in dev on the nfs server.
>
> /home/marduk/dev:ziggurat# ls -lu console
> crw-------  1 root  wheel    0,   0 Feb  7 18:08 console
> /home/marduk/dev:ziggurat# 
> 
> The access time isn't changing on /dev/console, so I doubt init is even
> getting that far when it tries to fork a shell.

The process seems blocked to proceed to open /dev/console before exec'ing
initial /bin/sh.  Something wrong is in console driver. 

Tohru Nishimura