Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:01:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Kevin Quinlan <Kevin.Quinlan@isltd.insignia.com> Cc: gpalmer@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel panic installing FreeBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960222125830.1275C-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <11405.9602221055@ferrari.isltd.insignia.com>
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I want to redirect this back into questions. On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, Kevin Quinlan wrote: > > > The actual details of the crash vary everytime, and I can't capture > > > the screen at the moment, as I haven't worked out a way of doing so. Does it crash in the same place everytime? Kernel panics are not my forte. > I managed to capture one in the end ... > > Fatal Trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode. > Fault virtual address: 0xf9e64a30 > Fault code: supervisor read, page not present > Instruction pointer: 0x8:0xf010bb92 > Code segment: base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > DPL 0, pres 1, def 32, gran 1 > Processor eflags: Interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0 > Current Process 24 (cpio) > Interrupt mask net tty bio > > The error is always the same, and the fault code is always the same, > other things vary. > I will check the RAM in the machine, it passes its self-test, but I > will try and exercise it a bit more vigorously. That would be my guess. > > > Is this a case of RTFM, or is this a known problem with 2.1? > > > > The only time I've seen this message is trying to install with 4MB of > > RAM, and then it barfs just before getting to the menu. > > No, it has 32Mb of RAM, but it is a new machine, and I wish to dedicate > it to FreeBSD, so I don't want a DOS partition, altough so far I get > the problem with or without a DOS partition. in that case we need to look at disk geometry being a problem; FreeBSD has a horrid time reading the correct geometry. The recommendation is to create a small DOS partition on the disk, then just delete it in the fdisk editor during install. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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