On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:39:21PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> Yes, I did create a separate partition for /etc.
> I did the install over without separate partition
> for /etc, now it works. Thanks!
No suprise here: /etc contains important files to boot the system.
Other top level dirs that really should be in the root partition:
/bin, /sbin, /root and /dev.
-Otto
>
> On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:30:33 +0100 Josh Grosse
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:38:47 +0100, auto709563 wrote
> >> I have installed 4.4 on amd64.
> >>
> >> When I boot up I get a pretty dmesg, followed by:
> >>
> >> Feb 9 18:52:43 init: cannot stat /etc/login.conf: No such file
> >or
> >> directory
> >> sh: /etc/rc: No such File or directory
> >> Feb 9 18:52:45 init: /etc/pwd.db: No such file or directory
> >> Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:
> >>
> >> After this, I get a shell, but nothing but / seems mounted.
> >>
> >> I could not save the dmesg.
> >
> >Very strange. You have a kernel, and you have init(8), but it
> >looks like
> >looks like /etc is missing or damaged. Did you, by chance, create
>
> >a separate
> >partition for /etc? That could explain this, as /etc is needed in
>
> >order to
> >boot multi-user.
>
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