>From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
>Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:08:46 +0200 (MET DST)
>
>Quoting Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com,
>> 	syncing disks... panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs
>
>This happens when you install a new /sbin/init (while the old one is 
>still running -- this is kind of hard to avoid ;-)).

No it's not.  Just move the running init binary out of the way before
you install the new one:

mv /sbin/init /sbin/init.old
(make install)

I've been doing this for months, and I haven't gotten a single panic.
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