From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 4:26:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kitkat.hotpop.com (kitkat.hotpop.com [204.57.55.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150D137B403 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 04:26:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phreaker.net (unknown [204.57.55.31]) by kitkat.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id EB353300EF for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:26:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from win98 (isdnppp-80.vestfold.net [217.65.226.80]) by zagnut.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7520050027 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:26:45 +0000 (UTC) From: webdude@phreaker.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:28:53 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: HELP!!! Init fails, can't boot ! Message-ID: <3BD96515.13081.5FAC05@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After a (so far I can tell) successfull upgrade procedure from FreeBSD 4.3 release to 4.4 stable, I reboot after a 'make installworld' and see the following msg. after getting thrown into single user mode: ' init: fatal signal: bus error' and a reference to ufs: /dev/ad0s1a Trying to boot my previous kernel or the generic one also fails w/ the same msg. I fsck'ed all partitions, no errors were found. But: I recently had fsck find inconsistencies on my ad0 HD related to soft updates (they are turned on for /var and /usr) that had made it impossible for me to delete a directory in /usr/ports, causing in turn the ports upgrade procedure to fail. That got fixed, however. I am to assume there is something wrong w/ my harddisk ? On _rare_ occasions, I HAVE seen the BIOS msg: 'Primary Master hard disk failed' Or is my motherboard causing this ? At any rate, I am now doomed to use MS Windows until someone gives me a hint or two (talk about incentive!) Inge E. Syvertsen ies@runbox.no *** Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message