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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: iinit panic in 4.3 installation
Message-ID: <4651@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 12:57:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  4 12:57:53 1986
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1331@megaron.UUCP> whm@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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