I made a VM in Parallels, and set it to boot to CD first. It got up and running, and when the installer tried to boot into sdD0, I explicitly told 9load to boot from:
sdC1!cdboot!9pccd.gz
I think that the installer tried to search for USB peripherals, but during that stage I got the following message:
panic: boot process died: unknown
panic: boot process died: unknown
dumpstack
ktrace /kernel/path f010a27c f004c34c <<EOF
estackx f004c620
f004c2ec=f010a011 f004c2f4=f01db1a6 f004c30c=f0100f6e f004c314=f0100f5d
f004c320=f01479dd f004c334=f010a27c f004c348=f010a27c f004c34c=f010a015
f004c354=f0147e03 f004c394=f01d0a6e f004c3a0=f01db2d2 f004c3a8=f01c8818
f004c3ac=f01c88c0 f004c3b0=f0149054 f004c3bc=f01ecfda f004c3c8=f01ecfda
f004c3d4=f01ecf71 f004c3e0=f01ecf71 f004c3fc=f01ed1f4 f004c404=f01dab96
f004c408=f01dabac f004c410=f01dacf0 f004c418=f01dacf0 f004c424=f01db1a6
f004c42c=f01db1a6 f004c438=f01c2fe6 f004c43c=f01c5146 f004c440=f01ef051
... // I'm leaving out some of the stacktrace. I'll upload the image of the window
f004c61c=0000001b
EOF
cpu0: exiting
Any idea as to what could be going wrong? My hardware is a Macbook Pro 2010 model with a 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7, and 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, if that is at all pertinent.
Here is the hosted image file: http://i.imgur.com/0ZnxP.png
sounds like it can't find the boot device. you might try 9atom.
- erik