Re: VFS Mounting Halts

Greg Crouch (greg@cl-sys.com)
Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:45:45 -0500 (EST)

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> > > > The system just hangs forever on that last VFS boot line above.
>
> I've heard of the same thing happening on another system; turned out that
> (for whatever reason) the INIT executable was trashed.
>
> Try booting with the RAMdisk again, mounting the harddisk partition, and
> copying over the INIT binary from the CDROM (I don't know if the RAMdisk
> INIT is the correct one to use?).

Jay++,

I hate to admit this here, but it may help someone else who is
experiencing a boot hanging on the "VFS mounting...." line.

It seems that my recursive cp did not work as I assumed it would.
i.e. When I did the following, the /dev directory was not copied
to my new partition:

1) booted to sdb3
2) cd /
3) mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
4) cp -auvfx / /mnt

After I discovered the missing /dev directory, I copied it to the
sda3 partition. Then the boot worked A-OK. Thanks for the feedback.

- Greg

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