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From: scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu (Scott Burris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: [NetBSD 0.9] panic: init died, Windows NT coexistence
Date: 14 Sep 1993 23:53:15 GMT
Organization: UCLA Campus Network Services
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I compiled up a new kernel to run on a 386/33 system and whenever
I try to run it instead of the distributed kernel, the system panic's
with init died.  Any words of wisdom here?  I checked to make sure that
it's compiled for a 386 with the math emulator.  Another new kernel
works just fine on a 486/33.  (I needed a kernel with some strategically
placed printf's so I could figure out why my port of color_xterm failed
to become the controlling terminal of the PTY it ran on -- needed color
for Seyon).

I've finally made 0.9 NetBSD and Windows NT exist peacefully on a system,
but I'm having trouble selecting which of them should boot.  I thought
os-bs would work, and it does allow me to select which system to boot,
but Windows NT no longer reconizes a striped volume set when booted from
os-bs; 0.9 works fine.  I was forced to revert back to the normal MBR and
use fdisk to twiddle active partitions (bleh!).  Anyone know of another
partition selector to try?  I'm thinking of trying to figure out how to
boot NetBSD from within the Windows NT boot selector as a last resort.

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Scott Burris
UCLA Campus Network Services
cnetslb@oac.ucla.edu (310) 206-4860 - OR - scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu