From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 22 12:52:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01297 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:52:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-30.mail.demon.net [194.159.80.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA01255 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:52:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bobh@n-cantrell.demon.co.uk) Received: from (n-cantrell.demon.co.uk) [193.237.193.139] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp id 0yGrjE-0005E6-00; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:52:24 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:50:38 +0000 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, support@cdrom.com From: robert w hall Subject: freebsd.2.2.5 - booting on cyrix 686 M2-MMX MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Trial Version 3.04 <92I6YdlFyF+Tddkqbj2GtNS7m3> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To remind My attempts to boot the generic distribution kernel have to date foundered on a kernel panic message - fatal trap 9- general protection fault while in kernel mode. (instruction pointer was at 0x8:0xf01aad71). Can you confirm that the kernel has been tested against this cpu type, and suggest a way forward. The motherboard may also be relevant - its a VX Pro PCI board UMC8670 - with an award 4.51 BIOS & miro 12pd svga card - 8MB of fp ram. 32 MB of edo. netcard (NE2000 clone), 130MB ide disk and b*** all else (floppy, cd-rom are on 486 server) -- robert w hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message