Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 17:28:29 +1000 From: Hugh Blandford <hugh@island.net.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: "Panic: going nowhere without my init" please help. Message-ID: <33DAF89D.41C9C692@island.net.au>
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Hi all, I'm getting the following error message "Panic: going nowhere without my init" It occurs when the system is trying to write the partition information to the drive. The drive already has a 10Meg DOS partition on it. The machine is an old Compaq SX/25 with 2 x 313Meg Maxtor ESDI drives in it on seperate drive controllers. It has 10 Meg of RAM. I have tried using the geometry that is detected by the install process and also I have tried the settings that I have worked out from the drive info. The Compaq diagnostics say that the system is fine. I have tried installing FreeBSD on both drives and it makes no difference. Originally I had another O/S on the drives called BOS (proprietry) and that had worked fine and as mentioned above DOS works fine. I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.2 from the CD. Any suggestions (apart from go out and buy a more up to machine ;-) would be welcome. Hugh.
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