From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 3:45:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bne003m.webcentral.com.au (horizon3.webcentral.com.au [202.139.235.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B181214CD0 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 03:45:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wyldephyre@telebot.net) Received: (qmail 9211 invoked from network); 11 Oct 1999 10:45:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO timberwolf) (203.147.253.149) by horizon3.webcentral.com.au with SMTP; 11 Oct 1999 10:45:50 -0000 Message-ID: <005c01bf13d7$cf54c9c0$95fd93cb@timberwolf> Reply-To: "Haikal Saadh" From: "Haikal Saadh" To: Subject: GPF on install Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:00:19 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm trying to install 3.2-Release on an old P200MMX with 64MB RAM.. I've got no trouble booting the install CD, but when I try to "commit" the installation, freeBSD reports: panic : general protection fault syncing disks 7 7 7 7 7 ( <--sometimes an 80 something number) (sometimes it fails, other times it succeeds) And then it reboots. This generally happens on the newfs bit, but some times it happens after extracting some or all distributions. Could this be a hardware problem? My disk geometry is set correctly, and I only (plan to) have freeBSD on this machine. (Hope to set it up as a proxy). All the probes seem to go fine. Any ideas? __________ Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon... ---Terry Pratchett--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message