panic: Going nowhere without my init!

[Garrett Cooper]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Kamlesh Patel <shilp.kamal at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ya, I added three extra lines.
>
> --- On Thu, 1/15/09, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: panic: Going nowhere without my init!
>> To: shilp.kamal at yahoo.com
>> Cc: "Hackers freeBSD" <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
>> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 11:33 PM
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Kamlesh Patel
>> <shilp.kamal at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > Thanks for answering my previous question
>> "FreeBSD kernel Debugging tools for Virtual Memory
>> Module", thank you Dag-Erling Smørgrav.
>> >
>> > Today i made a comment in Getpid() function of
>> sys/kern/kern_prot.c file and i got error of
>> >
>> >
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > panic: Going nowhere without my init!
>> > Can not dump. No dump device defined.
>> > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the
>> console to
>> abort--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > Could anyone help me in solving this error?
>>
>> "Made a comment" -- what kind of comment? Do you
>> in fact mean add
>> additional code?
>> -Garrett

Ok...? Why not just replace the init with a working copy off of a compatible CD?

I still don't understand why adding a [C, etc] `comment' would cause
these problems.

Thanks,
-Garrett

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