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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:3584 comp.os.386bsd.questions:13537 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!wetware!kaiwan.com!not-for-mail From: jclf@kaiwan.com (Jason Fordham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [FreeBSD] Installation woes: 'panic: init died' Date: 1 Oct 1994 08:50:13 -0700 Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920) Lines: 17 Message-ID: <36k0fl$aa2@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kaiwan009.kaiwan.com I am installing FreeBSD on a new machine. The disk controller is a BT455C, and it's running two HP C2490A's. The motherboard is a Pentium, OPTi chipped VLB/ISA bus, AMI bios. I was happily extracting the bindist when I got a 'panic: nonexistent page' (or somesuch). The reboot afterwards got as far as changing root device to sd0a sd1: no disk label panic:init died and now gets no further. I am going to start over, because I don't like this at all - but if it happens again, what can I do? Jason Fordham