Date: 30 Jan 96 11:20:00 -0600 From: kav@ihlpf.att.com (Kurt A Vangsness +1 708 713 1261) To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.freebsd.org, mpf@marconi.att.com Subject: Re: Problems installing 2.1 CDROM Message-ID: <9601310008.AA00911@ig4.att.att.com>
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Michael, Thanks for the response. Yes, we had the CD in when we booted the system (the CD installation boots right off the CD from DOS). Also, we did the W command in the slice/partition editors and also tried waiting (as recommended by the install program) until later for the final "commit". I am suspicious that the problem may be related to the 2940 SCSI controller driver. I saw some posts on netnews regarding some buggy behavior in the driver. Have you heard anything about this? Thanks, Kurt Vangsness AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Il kav@ihlpf.ih.att.com > > Kurt A Vangsness +1 708 713 1261 stands accused of saying: > > During the boot we notice that the probe for CD-ROM drive the following > > is reported: > > > > UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 > > not ready to ready transition: medium may have changed > > Harmless. > > > Then, if we proceed with the installation, we can get into the installation > > menu system and configure the FreeBSD partitions. When we continue with the > > installation, we get a kernel panic when the installation trys to start > > loading from the CD-ROM. The amusing panic is: "Going nowhere without my init!" > > which appears to be from kern/kern_exit.c > > Did you have the CD in when you booted the system? Did you use the 'W'rite > option in either the slice editor or the partition editor? > > > Kurt Vangsness > > > > P.S. I noticed that there doesn't appear to be a way to look at the > > kernel boot probe messages from the installation menu anymore. I remember > > that an older version allowed you to do that and I found it very useful > > in cases such as this problem. Is it still there but just hidden somehow? > > Hit ScrollLock and use the cursor keys. > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[ >
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