Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:38:19 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Nader Turki <nturki@adelphia.net> Cc: wilko@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Again init! Message-ID: <20000725103819.B1218@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <00a901bff5b8$04ca0800$1b9b3218@pit.adelphia.net>; from nturki@adelphia.net on Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:42:08PM -0400 References: <006f01bff5b1$1ed2a100$1b9b3218@pit.adelphia.net> <20000724231719.A1105@freebie.demon.nl> <008801bff5b5$a0f10920$1b9b3218@pit.adelphia.net> <20000724233112.B1248@freebie.demon.nl> <00a901bff5b8$04ca0800$1b9b3218@pit.adelphia.net>
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On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:42:08PM -0400, Nader Turki wrote: Alpha is a RISC CPU. FreeBSD has in addition to the i386 port also a port to Alpha machines. On Alpha this problem has been observed by some. I have never heard of it on i386, but that could be me. What is causes is unknown, but a workaround is to remove other bootable disks from the same system. At least that helps on Freebsd/alpha Wilko > Sorry, the reason i said i386 'cause i'm not sure what alpha is. > Anyway I have a Gateway ALR7200 Server PII400 and when i installed FreeBSD > last time it was i386. > Hope someone can help me with this problem. Anyway the 2 hard drives are > both SCSI Ultra2 LVD. FreeBSD reads the drives and i even partitioned them. > the only problem i get is on mounting and installing FreeBSD. > > Nader, > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> > To: Nader Turki <nturki@adelphia.net> > Cc: <wilko@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 5:31 PM > Subject: Re: Again init! > > > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:25:01PM -0400, Nader Turki wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > on i386 I believe. > > > > I believe? I assume you know whether you booted it on a PC or on an Alpha > > machine? > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> > > > To: Nader Turki <nturki@adelphia.net> > > > Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> > > > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 5:17 PM > > > Subject: Re: Again init! > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 04:52:44PM -0400, Nader Turki wrote: > > > > > Hi there, I sent an email earlier and got disconnected while i was > > > sending > > > > > it. so i'm not sure if you guys got it or not. I'll copy it below: > > > > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > I just installed a second HD and trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 from > CD! > > > > > Anyway, after partitioning i choose the the packages i want then > install > > > > > from CDROM .... but i get an error message freebsd never installs > ( the > > > > > error message is get is: > > > > > panic: Going nowhere without my init! > > > > > syncinng dics > > > > > done > > > > > and the machine reboots. > > > > > > > > Is this on alpha or in i386? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org > > > > wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl > > ---end quoted text--- > > > > -- > > Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org > > wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl ---end quoted text--- -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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