From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 20:38:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA21190 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:38:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA21098 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:37:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA13570; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 15:19:34 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601300449.PAA13570@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Problems installing 2.1 CDROM To: kav@ihlpf.att.com (Kurt A Vangsness +1 708 713 1261) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 15:19:32 +1030 (CST) Cc: mpf@marconi.att.com, FreeBSD-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9601292023.AA27843@ig4.att.att.com> from "Kurt A Vangsness +1 708 713 1261" at Jan 29, 96 11:16:00 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Kurt A Vangsness +1 708 713 1261 stands accused of saying: > During the boot we notice that the probe for CD-ROM drive the following > is reported: > > UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 > not ready to ready transition: medium may have changed Harmless. > Then, if we proceed with the installation, we can get into the installation > menu system and configure the FreeBSD partitions. When we continue with the > installation, we get a kernel panic when the installation trys to start > loading from the CD-ROM. The amusing panic is: "Going nowhere without my init!" > which appears to be from kern/kern_exit.c Did you have the CD in when you booted the system? Did you use the 'W'rite option in either the slice editor or the partition editor? > Kurt Vangsness > > P.S. I noticed that there doesn't appear to be a way to look at the > kernel boot probe messages from the installation menu anymore. I remember > that an older version allowed you to do that and I found it very useful > in cases such as this problem. Is it still there but just hidden somehow? Hit ScrollLock and use the cursor keys. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[