Re: [9fans] Init hangs

["Rodolfo kix García " <kix@kix.es>]

Hi!

I am not sure, and my reply can be stupid ...

Try to disconect the CD-Rom in vmware, and boot plan9

slds.


> Hi 9fans!
>
> I downloaded the ISO image dated 18 Sep 2008. The live CD worked
> beautifully,
> so I decided to install under VMWare Workstation 6. Well done to the guys
> who
> did the new(ish?) installer, IMHO it's a big improvement over the old one.
>
> Anyway, after installing and rebooting, the kernel gets as far as running
> init, which prints out
>
> init: starting /bin/rc
>
> and then hangs. I've taken a look at /sys/src/cmd/init.c and found that
> this line gets printed from the following code near the bottom of main:
>
> 	for(;;){
> 		print("\ninit: starting /bin/rc\n");
> 		fexec(rcexec);
> 		manual = 1;
> 		cmd = 0;
> 		sleep(1000);
> 	}
>
> What could have gone wrong? If exec had failed, an error message would
> have
> been printed. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps /bin/rc is an
> invalid image.
>
> Is there a core dump file I can examine to find out what's going wrong?
> I'm
> a noob, so please, put away the lighter and help me out :)
>
> TIA,
> Ralph
>
>
>


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