From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu May 25 0:57:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from msw.onthenet.com.au (pulsar.OntheNet.com.au [203.10.89.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4903637B637 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 00:57:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tonyg@onthenet.com.au) Received: from lancia.onthenet.com.au (unverified) by msw.onthenet.com.au (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.1.5) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 May 2000 17:57:15 +1000 Received: from OntheNet.com.au (quasar.nt.com.au [203.14.201.5]) by lancia.onthenet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA79243; Thu, 25 May 2000 17:57:13 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <392CDCDA.A5B3C97B@OntheNet.com.au> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:57:14 +1000 From: Tony Griffiths Organization: Network Technologies P/L X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marks, Maurice" Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 CD booting - cant find init on XP1000 References: <9996FB0C6AB3D111B9FB0000F81E38A20940A9F0@lkgexc1.tay.dec.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Marks, Maurice" wrote: > > I'm having trouble booting the 4.0 CD on an XP1000. The same CD boots fine > and installed FreeBSD on a Miata and a DS10. I'm seeing the "cant find init" > failure that Dirk Kleinhesselink reported in March on a PC164. The XP1000 > has 512MB of memory, 4 SCSI devices on the internal controller. Toshiba IDE > CDROM. Everything looks normal in the boot process until the kernel tries to > mount root on /dev/md0c, finds that md0 has invalid partition information > (no magic number) and later finds that it cant locate init. > > Any ideas appreciated Actually this happened to a friend of mine so yesterday I took my Alphastation 200 to his office and plugged his SCSI disks into it. Crashed with the "can't find init" problem just like his machine was doing. Replaced the disk and it worked like a charm!!! Don't know what it was about the disk that caused the crash. Perhaps a hard format might fix the problem?! Tony ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmaster@OntheNet.com.au This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message