iinit panic in 4.3 installation

[Chris Torek]

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:

	broken hardware (unlikely);
	a corrupted root file system; or
	the dreaded `user error'.

>I wondered if the mini-root might have been corrupted somehow, so we tried
>copying it to an empty partition using dd and then successfully fsck'd and
>mounted it, so it would appear to be ok.

Chances are your 4.2 swap area is not in the same place as 4.3's `b'
partition on your particular drive.  If you copy the mini-root with
the standalone copy, that should not be a problem, since the standalone
copy and the mini-root were (presumably) made from the same sources
and therefore have the same partition tables.
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