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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: panic: iinit on booting 4.3bsd miniroot, VAX 11/750
Message-ID: <604@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 01:23:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 16 01:23:57 1987
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In article <8799@brl-adm.ARPA> mullen@nrl-css.arpa (Preston Mullen) writes:
>Trying to bring up 4.3bsd on a VAX 11/750, I booted vmunix from the
>miniroot on disk ra0; upon specifying ra0* as my root device, I got an
>immediate panic: iinit.  Does this imply something like bad blocks in
>the swap area of the RA81 disk I am using?
>
I had the same experience with ra-type disks.  Worked fine with hp
disks.  Someone on the net mentioned that this is the result of upgrading
from 4.2 to 4.3 and using the 4.2 cassette.  So I got a real(tm) 4.3
cassette from Berkeley and have only tried it once, but it seemed to
work as expected.


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