fatal kernel trap

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jun 18, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>
> sometimes the boot process passes this step and terminates straight
> after I choose the display settings, e.g. FreeBSD console with  
> colours,
> with this message:
>
>
>
> init died (signal 0, exit 1)
> panic: Going nowhere without my init!
> cpuid = 1
> KDB: enter: panic
> [thread pid 1 tid 100001 ]
> Stopped at      kdb_enter_why+0x92:     [I2]    addl  
> r14=0xffffffffffe204d8,gp
> db>

This panic is the result of sysinstall aborting due to the
existing partitioning on the disk. Because sysinstall runs
as init, if sysinstall fails you automatically have a kernel
panic. This of course is unfortunate and can be avoided by
having a proper /sbin/init.

Try the 8.0-CURRENT-200906 snapshot...

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Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com