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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.kth.se!news.ifm.liu.se!isy.liu.se!kentp From: kentp@isy.liu.se (Kent Palmkvist) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Free beer for every FreeBSD User!! Date: 30 Sep 94 12:40:56 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <kentp.780928856@isy.liu.se> References: <3699f3$439@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> <36arq9$a50@startide.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lin.isy.liu.se wpaul@startide.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) writes: >PS: If, upon rebooting, you see the message "panic: init died" then > chances are your bin_tgz.?? files are corrupt and need to be > re-copied. I'm telling you this because I've seen many people > ask about this problem in this group before, and I don't want to > have to add you to the list. :) >-- >-Bill Paul >wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu The "panic: init died" is probably caused by a renamed init or sh binary. These files are renamed by the extract script, and not renamed back if anything goes wrong during the extraction. Boot from floppy and rename them back if this problem occurs (even better, check for existence of /sbin/init and /sbin/sh before rebooting). This problem may occur even with completely correct distribution files. happy hacking /Kent kentp@isy.liu.se