Re: panic: init died (signal 0, exit 12) during booting

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <50708.39644.qm%web58301.mail.re3.yahoo.com@localhost>,
newbie  <mailto635%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>Hi All,
>
>I am trying to bring up NetBSD-5_RC2 on an ARM based platform (upto
>serial console). Currently I am using ramdisk as the root file system
>and Cygwin as the development host. 
>
>I am getting the following panic during initial boot. 
>panic: init died (signal 0, exit 12).
>
>What are the reasons to get this panic? Any hints and suggestions would
>be appreciated.

init seems to want to execute a system call that the kernel does not support.
perhaps you are running a newer userland? Put a printf in syscall.c to print
the number of the syscall you are running, and the last one printed will be
the one not supported.

christos