From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 24 13:42:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cafes.net (mail.cafes.net [207.65.182.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2522437B479 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 13:42:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cafes.net (mail.cafes.net [207.65.182.25]) by mail.cafes.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA31080; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:42:13 -0600 Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:42:13 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Eldridge To: "Person, Roderick" Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org '" Subject: Re: Machine Panic with 4.0 Alpha install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think you should be good with a SCSI CD-ROM, provided the freebsd cd you have is bootable. Of course, who is to say that the machine won't kernel panic again (besides the development team =P)? Mike ----------------------------------------------------- Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs. On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Person, Roderick wrote: > Ok, > > I have got freebsd to get to the point of loading the Kern and MFS floppies > and the graphical install come up. I have done this 3 times and at various > point there after I get the error. > > machine panic possible kernel overflow. > > how do I get around this? Is it a know problem? > > I'm installing on a noname AXPpci33 running at 166M with 16 parity memory. > No on board cache. I have a SCSI hard drive, but the CDROM is a IDE and is > not getting picked up. I was attempting to install via ppp. > > I'm on my way to look for a SCSI CDROM, should I pick up anything else? > > TIA > > Rod..... > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message