From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 5 10:33:07 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA22584 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 10:33:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from netcom22.netcom.com (falstaff@netcom22.netcom.com [192.100.81.136]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA22571 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 10:33:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from falstaff@localhost) by netcom22.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id KAA28150; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 10:33:01 -0800 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 10:33:01 -0800 From: falstaff@netcom.com (anthony m. vervoort) Message-Id: <199612051833.KAA28150@netcom22.netcom.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: installation problem Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk so i'm setting up a freebsd box. i've got a known good boot floppy for 2.1.5-RELEASE, and a cobbled together system with 8 megs, a generic IDE card and Quantum drive, a standard monochrome card, and a NE2000 equivalent ethernet card. problem is that every time it boots from the floppy, it gets through decompressing the kernel and then panics and reboots. i've tried it with a questionable 386 board with a coprocessor, and now with a known good 486 board. with the 386, it cleared and rebooted before i could see an error message. with the 486, it gives me this: sor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8;0xf01dda3e code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = nested task, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 0 () interrupt mask = net tty bio panic: page fault Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort can anybody tell me what piece of hardware it might be gagging on? the current cpu is an Intel 486DX2-66; the 386 was an AMD 386DX-33 with a VLSI 387-33. both systems seem to work fine under DOS. the motherboard is a SIS chipset with an AMI bios. -anthony vervoort falstaff@antfarm.org