i386/74217: init died

[Robert Ken Francis]

>Number:         74217
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       init died
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 21 23:00:52 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Ken Francis
>Release:        5.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
Presario 2500 notebook, Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz 512KB cache, 588MB
Also have a Linksys PCMCIA wireless WPC54G.
Hitachi ATA-5 30GB HDD
>Description:
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0
spec_getpages:(md0) I/O read failure: (error=5) bp 0xcd7239ec vp 0xc2205d68 size: 2560, resid: 2560, a_count: 2244, valid: 0x0 nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 499, pcount: 1
vm_fault: pager read error, pid 1 (swapper)
init died (signal 6, exit 0)
panic: Going nowhere without my init!
Uptime: 15s
>How-To-Repeat:
Attempt to install FreeBSD 5.3 using boot floppies on a Presario 2500 notebook.
>Fix:
Not known.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: