init not loading? why?

2003-03-28 Thread Sean Chittenden
I recently purchased a new laptop HDD, tossed three partitions onto the drive (/, /usr, and swap), newfs'ed them with UFS2, mounted the new drive as a umass device, copied files over (tar), and now when I boot with my new drive, the kernel is having problems launching /sbin/init. For the life of

Re: init not loading? why?

2003-03-28 Thread Sean Chittenden
I recently purchased a new laptop HDD, tossed three partitions onto the drive (/, /usr, and swap), newfs'ed them with UFS2, mounted the new drive as a umass device, copied files over (tar), and now when I boot with my new drive, the kernel is having problems launching /sbin/init. For the

Re: init not loading? why?

2003-03-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote: I recently purchased a new laptop HDD, tossed three partitions onto the drive (/, /usr, and swap), newfs'ed them with UFS2, mounted the new drive as a umass device, copied files over (tar), and now when I boot with my new drive, the kernel is

Re: init not loading? why?

2003-03-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote: Ah! Figured it out after reading through init's src: /dev didn't exist therefore the machine wouldn't start. No good. I may find a place to stick this got'cha in the docs or add an mkdir() call to init. mkdir(2) on / is not going to