Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:44:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "anthony m. vervoort" <falstaff@netcom.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961205114235.8339I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199612051833.KAA28150@netcom22.netcom.com>
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On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, anthony m. vervoort wrote: > 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 you identify exactly where it panics? What messages are above the panic? And can you resurrect the missing first line? Check your RAM -- make sure they're all matched in size and type. > 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. I don't think it's choking on the SiS, I have a Pentium model and FreeBSD loves it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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