[feels like I am talking to myself in this thread ...]
After copying the /usr/src/sbin/init/ directory from HEAD to 8.3-RELEASE and
building init there (without changes), things started working again, and the
image now succesfully boots. Thanks for that.
The downside of this approach is the lac
Ed sent me a answer to my ramblings:
"It is indeed true that init(8) is a bit picky when you don't have a
console. If /dev/console cannot be opened, init(8) will just break
completely. This has been fixed in FreeBSD -HEAD, where I've extended
init(8) to handle this gracefully, specifically for cas
We run our NanoBSD images on Soekris and ALIX hardware. In some cases we need
all available serial ports for other hardware like GPS, and modems. The boards
have no video, so with all serial ports unavailable as a console no other
console is available.
The problem is that FreeBSD does not handl
