init panic in freebsd 7.1

[Polytropon]

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:23:13 -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng <tfcheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> init: not found in path /sbin/.... (a lot of paths)
> panic: no init
> 
> what is that??

The init process is the "root" of the FreeBSD startup, and the last
part of the OS loader cannot find it, so the OS cannot start.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=init&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE&format=ascii

You can use a live system CD of FreeBSD (6, 7) or FreeSBIE to boot
the system with this CD, it should work. Then you can mount your
/ partition and check the existance of init which usually is
/sbin/init. Don't forget to fsck the hard disk, maybe due to the
failing power supply you had some damages on the hard disk (file-wise),
or even worse...




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