Subject: Re: memory based root filesystem
To: None <kamalp@acm.org>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/11/2005 14:34:17
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:39:27AM -0800, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
> Why does the system panic saying there is no init and
> then stop in init?
[...]
> init: copying out path `/sbin/init' 11

This 'init' is the /sbin/init program.

> exec /sbin/init: error 8

The kernel tried to load and execute /sbin/init, but failed for some
reason.  This is the problem now.

> Stopped in pid 1.1 (init) at    0xc02d884c:     bx    

This 'init' is the process name for the kernel process that's trying to
start the /sbin/init program.

-allen

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