From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 18 17:37:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50681106564A for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:37:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout012.mac.com (asmtpout012.mac.com [17.148.16.87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C8EF8FC21 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:37:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from macbook-pro.jnpr.net (natint3.juniper.net [66.129.224.36]) by asmtp012.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KLG0057V3L4U210@asmtp012.mac.com> for freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <3866E656-21BF-44A9-91BB-3A3556642064@mac.com> From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Anton Shterenlikht In-reply-to: <20090618150909.GA24216@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:36:39 -0700 References: <20090618145134.GA23994@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <20090618150909.GA24216@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fatal kernel trap X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:37:08 -0000 On Jun 18, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > sometimes the boot process passes this step and terminates straight > after I choose the display settings, e.g. FreeBSD console with > colours, > with this message: > > > > init died (signal 0, exit 1) > panic: Going nowhere without my init! > cpuid = 1 > KDB: enter: panic > [thread pid 1 tid 100001 ] > Stopped at kdb_enter_why+0x92: [I2] addl > r14=0xffffffffffe204d8,gp > db> This panic is the result of sysinstall aborting due to the existing partitioning on the disk. Because sysinstall runs as init, if sysinstall fails you automatically have a kernel panic. This of course is unfortunate and can be avoided by having a proper /sbin/init. Try the 8.0-CURRENT-200906 snapshot... -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com