Subject: Re: Boot strangeness...
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Holo.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/03/1996 19:49:43
>> [...] and Nothing Happens.  The 4/110 gets to "init: copying out
>> path `/sbin/init' 11" and stops.

> This message comes from the kernel when it execs init.  I've seen
> this when there were no files in /dev, so init couldn't scream down
> /dev/console that there were no device files....

> Run MAKEDEV in the /dev directory for your diskless client(s).

You may also want to apply the patches in PR 2236, so that _next_ time
this happens the kernel will at least warn you about it.

					der Mouse

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