From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 12 20:49:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20869 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:49:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aero.org (aero.org [130.221.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20863 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:49:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cal@rush.aero.org) Received: from rush.aero.org ([130.221.201.83]) by aero.org with ESMTP id <111112-3>; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:49:11 -0800 Received: from armadillo.aero.org (armadillo.aero.org [130.221.192.44]) by rush.aero.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA02223; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:49:08 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Landauer Message-Id: <199811130449.UAA02223@rush.aero.org> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:49:06 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2.2.7 laptop failures 8-( Cc: cal@rush.aero.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, all - i have a dell latitude laptop which has run freebsd most of its life (well, after i finished myst, anyway 8-)) the sad story (probly irrelevant): i think i broke the boot blocks on the hard disk i have tried to resurrect it repeatedly in several ways i can get a very old windows 3.1 to run on it (because i have a gateway laptop also, and used their boot disk and an old w3.1 floppy disk set) when i try to boot it from the hard disk, it goes through some of the usual bootup procedure, then stops with 'read error' when i try to use the freebsd 2.2.7 or 2.2.5 boot floppy, it allows me to do the setup configuration, then fails with 'panic: page fault' ? more later, cal@aero.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message