From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 20 01:01:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA28835 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 01:01:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from keystone.westminster.edu (fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu [204.171.15.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA28817 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 01:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by keystone.westminster.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA24209; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 04:01:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 04:01:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Greg Lehey cc: Doug White , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install In-Reply-To: <19970920172418.60708@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > > a bunch of addresses, something > > about supervicor read failed...? > > Then it says system will reboot in 15 secs. > > I tried taking out everything I don't have, leaving everything in, and a > > couple random configs. Same result.. > > This looks like a bug to me. In fact, there's no question: anything > that causes the kernel to panic is a bug. > > Are you saying that the system panics during boot? Can you say > exactly where? How much memory does your machine have? I have a Compaq Presario, originally a Pentium 120, now a Cyrix 6x86 166. I have 24 megs of RAM installed, put there's a aparently a hangup in the Compaq architecture, or the FreeBSD interface to it, which means that only 16 megs is detected with the GENERIC kernel; this was true in 2.1.6, and in 2.2.1; I always have to compile a custom kernel to use more than 16. It panics right after I quit the kernel config and save; I don't get any messages about probes after that; it clears the screen and goes right to the panic. I could see if I can get a screen shot of it; I stil have the SNAP boot.flp here somewhere... :-} MAtt (.sig sym-linked to /dev/null)