Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:29:35 -0800 (PST) From: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.EDU> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: 4.0-RELEASE install error: can't find init Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1000324101052.9275B-100000@amadeus.ucsf.edu>
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I cannot install 4.0 RELEASE on my PC164: I burned a copy of the updated ISO image put out the other day. My system has 2 ide disks on the primary IDE channel, an IDE cdrom on the 2nd IDE channel, a dual channel Qlogic 1040 UW SCSI/Ethernet PCI combo card from an AlphaStation 5/266 with an IBM 18GB UW disk on SCSI bus 0 and a Toshiba CD-ROM on SCSI bus 1. IDE disk one has NT on it, IDE disk two has Linux RedHat 6.1 on it -- I've installed SRM and the SCSI disk has OpenVMS on it. The system boots up fine from the 4.0 CD (in the SCSI cdrom). I have to interrupt the boot process and set the parameter: set isp_map_mem=0xff in order for the probing of the SCSI controller to go, as per discussions I had with this group trying to run the 4.0 release candidate. Setting this gets me to the start of the install screen, but then the system halts with a message: can't find my init... going nowhere At which point the system reboots. Someone said there was an option to give the kernel telling it what device to mount for root, but they weren't sure of the syntax - something like: set vfs.mountroot=device I've booted my system off the install CD -- why can't the kernel find the root filesystem ? Or if I need to tell it where to find root for the install, what would I tell it ? Thanks for any help. Dirk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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