From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 1 19:48:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25153 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 19:48:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pacific.net (pacific.pacific.net [199.4.80.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25145 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 19:48:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ufkartfm@pacific.net) Received: from pacific.net (slime-lake.pacific.net [209.209.2.250]) by pacific.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA28193; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 19:47:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <363CBAEA.1DD5F35A@pacific.net> Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 19:47:54 +0000 From: curtis Organization: Flying Snail Ranch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: multia - pid 5 (init), uid 0:exited on signal 12 References: <199811020135.RAA07089@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org thanks again mike - very much appreciated!!! after the last message i sent you (about trying again tomorrow) i checked and 'yup', you were right, so i 're-did-it', this was the result [snipped]: FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision (jkh@beast.cdrom.coSm, Tue Oct 27 07:13:06 PST 1998) FreeBSD 3.0-19981031-SNAP #1: Sun Nov 1 06:34:36 GMT 1998 jkh@beast.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMF /stand/sysinstall running as init on serial console These are the predefined terminal types available to sysinstall when running stand-alone. Please choose the closest match for your particular terminal. 1 ...................... Standard ANSI terminal. 2 ...................... VT100 or compatible terminal. 3 ...................... FreeBSD system console (color). 4 ...................... FreeBSD system console (monochrome). and i am back to sysinstall. tnx agn n'very best2u, curtis Mike Smith wrote: > > > target machine: digital multia/266mhz/64mb - serial console > > > > (smile) well, i didn't pay attention to 'Murphy' (this time) and did a > > 'rebuild' of the (2 floppy disk) netbsd distribution (which went well). > > > > [successive install steps elided] > > > > now, when i 'boot dka0 -file freebsd', everything 'sails' (very fast) > > until it gets to the end of the 'cd0' initialization and then starts > > doing this: > > > > pid 5 (init), uid 0: exited on signal 12 > > Nov 1 18:16:11 init: single user shell terminated, restarting > > You are trying to run a mismatched sh/kernel pair; one is a FreeBSD > binary, one is a NetBSD binary. Boot from the NetBSD install floppy > again and make sure that you have both from the same source. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message -- curtis - ufkartfm@pacific.net - site administrator for Nobody I want Nobody to control my life! How about you? http://www.netvideo.com/nobody To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message