iinit panic

[Torben N. Nielsen]

In article <4651 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <1331 at megaron.UUCP> whm at megaron.UUCP writes:
>>A friend of mine is trying to bring up 4.3 on a 750 and he's getting an
>>iinit panic upon bringing up the kernel on the mini-root.
>
>iinit panics are always due to one of three things:
>

The problem is caused by RA81 drives and 4.2BSD boot media. I encountered
the same problem when I converted a 780 from 4.2BSD to 4.3BSD. 

If you have more than one RA81, the solution is easy.  Assume you have to
drives, 0 and 1 and that your ultimate aim is to boot from partition a on
drive 0. Instead of trying to put the miniroot on partition b of drive 0,
put the miniroot on partition a of drive 1 and go from there. The problem
won't manifest itself then. That was how I resolved the problem...

					---torben
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