Montecito installation of 7.0 Release

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Marc Lörner wrote:

> Hello,
> today I tried installing FreeBSD 7.0 Release on Montecito.
> Kernel boots now, I can select an terminal and then it starts
> "/stand/sysinstall".

So far so good! :-)

> But a shortwhile after output "Probing devices, please wait ..."
> I always get the following message output:
> init died (signal 0, exit 1)
>
> panic: Going nowhere without my init!
> cpuid = 2
> KDB: enter: panic
> [thread pid 1 tid 100001 ]
> Stopped at      kdb_enter+0x81: [F1]    nop.f 0x0
> db>

This means that sysinstall is aborting and since our
installer runs as init, this also means that we have
a very nasty failure mode: a kernel panic.

The most likely cause is the contents on the disk.
I don't know if you can wipe out the disk and see if
that makes a difference, but if you can, please try.

If you can't wipe out the disk, you could download
the live file system ISO image and boot from that.
You can then use all the usual commands to manually
partition the disk, after which you can retry the
installation.

HTH,

Oh, before I forget: I fixed a problem in FreeBSD's
support for MS-DOS file systems that prevented
FreeBSD from mounting the EFI file system on a HP
ia64 machine. That fix is not in FreeBSD 7.0 and
may actually prevent a successful installation for
other reasons. I'll make sure it's in the next
snapshot that comes from the 7-STABLE branch.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com