Montecito installation of 7.0 Release

[Marc Lörner]

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 19:53, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 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.
>

When trying livefs-iso I get into sysinstall too, like in all other iso-images
(disk1, bootonly). Google yielded no hint on what to do to start livefs 
correctly. So is the image build wrong or what do I have to change to start 
and boot into livefs?

> 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.