I have an OpenBSD VPS, I just built the latest kernel from the 5.3 patch branch, and the new kernel can't find init, but neither can the old kernel, they both make this output:
>> OpenBSD/amd64 BOOT 3.01 boot> obsd booting hd0a:obsd: 8404228+1102404 [52+381152+367486]=0x9c7d50 entry point at 0x200120 [7205c766, 34000004, 24448b12, 2494a304] [ using 749064 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2013 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 5.3-stable (SECUSRVR) #0: Wed May 22 10:07:51 PDT 2013 r...@elijah.secusrvr.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/SECUSRVR cpu0: QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1 ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.65 GHz cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,NXE,LONG,SSE3,PERF real mem = 804777984 (767MB) avail mem = 780640256 (744MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 02/13/10, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfb4d0, SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xfbd3f (10 entries) bios0: vendor QEMU version "QEMU" date 01/01/2007 acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: sleep states S3 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC acpi0: wakeup devices acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpicpu0 at acpi0 mpbios0 at bios0: Intel MP Specification 1.4 cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: apic clock running at 999MHz mpbios0: bus 0 is type ISA ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 1 pa 0xfec00000, version 11, 24 pins ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 1 bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8c00 0xd0000/0x600! pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82441FX" rev 0x02 pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82371SB ISA" rev 0x00 pciide0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "Intel 82371SB IDE" rev 0x00: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <QEMU HARDDISK> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 20480MB, 41943040 sectors atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <QEMU, QEMU DVD-ROM, 0.9.> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 0, DMA mode 2 cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 0 atapiscsi1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus1 at atapiscsi1: 2 targets cd1 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <QEMU, QEMU DVD-ROM, 0.9.> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 0 uhci0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "Intel 82371SB USB" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 11 piixpm0 at pci0 dev 1 function 3 "Intel 82371AB Power" rev 0x03: apic 1 int 10 iic0 at piixpm0 iic0: addr 0x19 3e=00 48=00 4a=00 4e=00 fc=00 fe=00 words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000 iic0: addr 0x1b 3e=00 48=00 4a=00 4e=00 fc=00 fe=00 words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000 iic0: addr 0x1c 0f=00 3e=00 48=00 4a=00 4e=00 fc=00 fe=00 words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000 iic0: addr 0x1d 0f=00 3e=00 48=00 4a=00 4e=00 fc=00 fe=00 words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000 iic0: addr 0x1e 3e=00 48=00 4a=00 4e=00 fc=00 fe=00 words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000 iic0: addr 0x1f 3e=00 48=00 4a=00 4e=00 fc=00 fe=00 words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000 iic0: addr 0x29 00=d0 01=d0 02=d0 03=d0 04=d0 05=d0 06=d0 07=d0 08=d0 words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000 iic0: addr 0x2b 00=d0 01=d0 02=d0 03=d0 04=d0 05=d0 06=d0 07=d0 08=d0 words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000 iic0: addr 0x4c 00=d0 01=d0 02=d0 03=d0 04=d0 05=d0 06=d0 07=d0 08=d0 words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000 iic0: addr 0x4e 00=d0 01=d0 02=d0 03=d0 04=d0 05=d0 06=d0 07=d0 08=d0 words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) em0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82540EM)" rev 0x03: apic 1 int 11, address 52:54:00:27:26:84 em1 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82540EM)" rev 0x03: apic 1 int 11, address 52:54:00:3b:26:84 virtio0 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Memory" rev 0x00: Virtio Memory Balloon Device viomb0 at virtio0 virtio0: apic 1 int 10 virtio1 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Console" rev 0x00: Virtio Console Device virtio1: no matching child driver; not configured isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com0: console pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: density unknown fd1 at fdc0 drive 1: density unknown usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support nvram: invalid checksum vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b clock: unknown CMOS layout exec /sbin/init: error 8 init: not found panic: no init Stopped at Debugger+0x4: popl %ebp RUN AT LEAST 'trace' AND 'ps' AND INCLUDE OUTPUT WHEN REPORTING THIS PANIC! DO NOT EVEN BOTHER REPORTING THIS WITHOUT INCLUDING THAT INFORMATION! ddb> trace Debugger(d08fd27c,f53b6f18,d08d83d7,f53b6f18,d09e6f94) at Debugger+0x4 panic(d08d83d7,f53b6f58,f53b6f64,0,ffffffff) at panic+0x5d start_init(d658c000) at start_init+0x251 Bad frame pointer: 0xd0bc9ea8 ddb> ps PID PPID PGRP UID S FLAGS WAIT COMMAND 15 0 0 0 3 0x100200 aiodoned aiodoned 14 0 0 0 3 0x100200 syncer update 13 0 0 0 3 0x100200 cleaner cleaner 12 0 0 0 3 0x100200 reaper reaper 11 0 0 0 3 0x100200 pgdaemon pagedaemon 10 0 0 0 3 0x100200 bored crypto 9 0 0 0 3 0x100200 pftm pfpurge 8 0 0 0 3 0x100200 usbtsk usbtask 7 0 0 0 3 0x100200 usbatsk usbatsk 6 0 0 0 3 0x100200 bored viomb 5 0 0 0 3 0x100200 acpi0 acpi0 4 0 0 0 3 0x100200 bored syswq 3 0 0 0 3 0x40100200 idle0 2 0 0 0 3 0x100200 kmalloc kmthread * 1 0 0 0 7 0 swapper 0 -1 0 0 3 0x200 scheduler swapper I'm really not sure how this can happen, it's like init vanished. -- www.johntate.org