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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!uctvax.uct.ac.za!ctech.ac.za!ernstjdt Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: HELP! more on panic&reboot Message-ID: <ernstjdt.30.2E51DB8C@ctech.ac.za> From: ernstjdt@ctech.ac.za Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 09:42:36 GMT Distribution: world Organization: Cape Technikon Nntp-Posting-Host: 155.238.48.27 Lines: 49 Hi Ok, I've got the box next to me now... Since I've had the same results on two different boxes I'm sure(sh) that its not hardware. To recap: I installed FreeBSD-1.1.5.1-RELEASE with the three disks and then ftp'ed the distributions. Now the box booted fine from the IDE drive (and the SCSI disk on the other box) and proceded to show me the initial setup screen telling me about load_etc. I ran extract to extract the binaries and then ran configure - and rebooted... When it reboots it probes everything fine and up to 'npx0 on motherboard' then it goes: panic: init died syncing disks... done dumping to dev 1, offset 52076 dump 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 succeeded Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Well pressing a key does a reboot anyway - I assume this 'press msg' is the entry routine to get the debugger kicked in... So! What am I doing wrong??? My installation of 1.1-RELEASE was a breeze so was every install before then - I must admit I'm still learning about all this, but I'm not all THAT green, am I? :-) My only conclusion so far was that the binaries must contain some file that clobbers an install generated file, but I check that (floppy boot and mounting / and /usr - noproblem there) even restored the original files - mostly just static versions of the dynamic library based commands, but no luck. Now I've got two boxes down - and their NOT mine :-( and I'm too scared to upgrade my existing BSD box.... Hope anyone can help... Ernst -- Ernst J. du Toit (TED5) Internet: ernstjdt@maxwell.ctech.ac.za School of Electrical Engineering BELTEL : 175250 / Amateur Radio: ZR1ABB Cape Technikon Voice: +27 21 460 3911 / Fax: +27 21 45 4161 South Africa /* Hackers do it with bytes and nybbles ! */