From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 7:42:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B06BB14F63 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:42:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host1.ie-online.it [194.133.148.10]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15835; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:39:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA05341; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:39:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990420163947.00946c90@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:39:47 +0200 To: Jilani Khaldi From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: Kernel Panic! Me too. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <371C8E2D.DE389C47@agata.clio.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 16.24 20/04/99 +0200, you wrote: >I have a pentium Celetron 333 MHZ, with 128 MB of RAM, and 6 GB of HD. I >want to substitute NT. I have installed on it FreeBSD 3.1 (release >version) and built the kernel choosing I586 as CPU. Now, when FreeBSD >starts, I see: kernel panic, press any key to reboot. And every time the >same story. It can't go on. Do I have to reinstall it again? Or there is >something to save from the last installation? And if I have to reinstall >again, I don't want to have the generic kernel, but another optimized >for my machine. Type "kernel.GENERIC" at boot, so the system will load the generic kernel. Check your kernel configuration step-by-step and choose 686 instead of 586 as CPU. Do config, make depend, make, make install and reboot. --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - Systems Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message