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Article #445Re: iinit panic in 4.3 installation
From: Barry Shein
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1986 02:03
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1986 02:03
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In article <1331@megaron.UUCP> whm@megaron.UUCP writes: >A friend of mine is trying to bring up 4.3 on a 750 and he's getting an >iinit panic upon bringing up the kernel on the mini-root. From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) >Chances are your 4.2 swap area is not in the same place as 4.3's `b' >partition on your particular drive. Yes, but if this were the case would he have gotten that far into the boot? The generic kernel is up and asking him for the root partition. Is it possible it this is not unit 0 he is trying this on? Even if you use a different drive it might be a good idea to temporarily set the unit plug to 0 (you said it was an ra) while you do this first step. It's almost certainly something like that, I've been thru this message and it always was something like that. -Barry Shein, Boston University
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!yale!husc6!bu-cs!bzs From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: iinit panic in 4.3 installation Message-ID: <2787@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 21:03:08 EST Article-I.D.: bu-cs.2787 Posted: Thu Dec 4 21:03:08 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 05:23:11 EST Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci. Lines: 21