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Date:      Sun, 29 Dec 1996 18:11:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@time.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: misc/2321: installation panic before going to past-install menu
Message-ID:  <199612300211.SAA25259@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199612300100.RAA22764@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 29, 96 05:00:02 pm

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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> The following reply was made to PR misc/2321; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
> To: jin@iss-p1.lbl.gov
> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, erich@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: misc/2321: installation panic before going to past-install menu 
> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 16:54:25 -0800
> 
>  > 	ASUS P/I-P55TVP4/200MHz + 3Com 3C509B ethernet card + NCR SCSI
>  > 	with -c option "irq ep0 15"
>  > 
>  > >Description:
>  > 
>  > 	-----------------Information Dialog-----------------
>  > 	 Saving any boot -c changes to new kernel ... panic: Going nowhere with
>  out my init!
>  
>  Ouch!  Looks like it's dying somewhere in the code which copies
>  userconfig changes from the boot kernel to the installed kernel.
>  
>  This may prove "interesting" to debug (I'll try your exact set of -c
>  changes for now) so I may end up just adding an option for turning
>  this behavior off (on by default) if I can't fix it.  Needless to say,
>  this doesn't happen on any of my test machines (I have to tweak ed0 on
>  most of my test boxes, in fac) and may be difficult to reproduce.
>  
>  Also strange that no one else has reported this!  Hmmmm.

	i ran into this problem this morning.
	tried to install a couple different distributions
	(binaries and kernel sources, X-developer, minimal)

	the machine is a dell 486-50, smc ultra (8216?), adaptec
	1542CP (plug-n-pray disabled)

	used -cv at boot to remove all devices that are not needed.
	moved ed0 to irq 3, i/o 0x300, mem 0xd4000
	(removed sio1--due to interrupt confict, same with mse0)

	this problem is new to 2.2-beta
	i can do further testing tomorrow.

	while getting the distribution splits, the install would
	return to the menu for selecting an ftp site. bizarre.
	i was using wcarchive.cdrom.com.  hitting <enter>, results
	in a dialog about "reuse network settings?".  hitting <enter>
	again, results in the install continuing.

	my old memory seems to associate the problme with the doc
	distribution....but i couldn't say for sure.
jmb



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