Re: panic: init died (signal 0, exit 12) during booting

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 05:27:34AM -0700, newbie wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to bring up NetBSD-5_RC2 on an ARM based platform (upto
> serial console). Currently I am using ramdisk as the root file system
> and Cygwin as the development host.

init exits with result code 12 when it cannot run MAKEDEV.

Are your userland and kernel of the same version?  If not, you may need
to add COMPAT_ options to your kernel configuration.  I have seen init
exit 12 precisely for that reason.

Dave

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