Help Installing Diskless Sun 4/110

[Dinah Anderson]

>Everything works fine until the diskless 4/110 tries to start init (i.e.
>it mounts the files systems, finds /vmunix, etc. ) at that point we get
>the error

>failed to invoke init, error 2
>panic: icode

>and then the machine tries to dump on the swap area, fails the dump, and
>then tries to reboot. 

I ran into this problem under 3.5. It may be related. The problem I had
was that I was trying to boot a diskful 3/260 (its root and swap were on
nd on the file server) off a generic kernel (you know - swap generic). The
generic kernel evidently makes certain assumptions if it finds a local sd
or xy device. Changing the swap and root entry in the kernel fix the
problem.

I suggest checking your kernel config file, etc. as a place to start. On
advice from Sun, I spent quite a bit of time checking for corrupted
filesystems, etc.

Dinah Anderson 
Shell Oil Company, Information Center (713) 795-3287
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