Panic: No Init

[Mike Eubanks]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 00:10 -0800, E.J Burritt wrote:
> Hi, I'm kind of a noob to BSD am having some  configuration errors. I had my BSD running fine on an older pc, and  have recently gotten a newer one. I want to use the same hd that was in  my old box though insteading of reformatting from scratch. Now I  installed the hd and booted up, BSD starts to load but then it errors  out with:
>   
>   mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>   exec /stand/sysinstall: error 5
>   ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=24799
>   ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=24799
>   ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=24799
>   spec_getpages:(ad0s1a) I/O read failure: (error=5) bp 0xc873baec vp 0xc18e77d68
>   size: 65536, resid: 65536, a_count: 65536, valid: 0x0
>   nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 0, pcount: 16
>   init: not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/oinit:/sbin/init.bak:/stand/sysinstall
>   panic: no init
>   
>   And then it reboots. Now the weird thing is safe mode will work without  a problem. Does anyone know what I could do to fix this? Thank you in  advance.
>   
> 

There are some similar postings with this problem.  You might try the
following link.

http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=31551


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Mike Eubanks <mse_software at charter.net>