Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:36:39 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fatal kernel trap Message-ID: <3866E656-21BF-44A9-91BB-3A3556642064@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20090618150909.GA24216@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090618145134.GA23994@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <20090618150909.GA24216@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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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
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