From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 13 22:42:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA01065 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:42:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (root@jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA01060 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:42:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goodall2.u.washington.edu (pharaoh@goodall2.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.168]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id WAA12418; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:42:14 -0700 Received: from localhost (pharaoh@localhost) by goodall2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id WAA31148; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:42:14 -0700 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:42:13 -0700 (PDT) From: E Lakin To: Doug White cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading 2.2.1->2.2.2 problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, E Lakin wrote: > > While trying to upgrade my machine to 2.2.2, i ran into a problem early- > > my machine won't boot from any of the 2.2.2 media! I've tried making a > > boot disk from the boot.flp on the cdrom, and also booting to dos and > > running install.bat from the cd-rom. > > > > symptoms: freebsd probes all of my hardware, and then gets a double > > fault. > > Ack! > > We'll need the panic output before we can isolate what's going on. Unfortunately, there's no panic output. Here's what it says when booting from a floppy disk: ...various HW probes... changing root device to fd0c panic: double fault syncing disks... Then, the machine freezes. The same thing happens when booting from the cdrom from dos, sans the "changing root device" line. --eric lakin