From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 07:07:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA06270 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 07:07:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgate.isltd.insignia.com (mailgate.isltd.insignia.com [193.112.16.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA06261 Mon, 4 Mar 1996 07:07:29 -0800 (PST) X-Address: Insignia Solutions plc., High Wycombe, Bucks, HP11 1JU, UK X-Telephone: +44 1494 459426 X-Fax: +44 1494 459720 Received: from ferrari.isltd.insignia.com by mailgate.isltd.insignia.com (5.65c8/UK-2.1.ISL) with SMTP id AA26055; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:07:26 GMT From: Kevin Quinlan Message-Id: <20970.9603041507@ferrari.isltd.insignia.com> Subject: Re: Kernel panic installing FreeBSD 2.1 To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:07:24 +0000 (GMT) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199603040059.LAA09378@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 4, 96 11:29:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Gentlemen, We have made more progress. > > Just a quick recap: our PCI P100 machine, with Seagate drives, Panasonic > > CDROM on a Buslogic 946C SCSI controller, with 3C509 ethernet and 32Mb > > > I would actually be suspecting your RAM, your cache or your motherboard > > > chipset. > What speed DRAMs? Originally 70ns, but changing to 60ns has allowed the software to install (at the premises of our supplier) I am told that this may be de-rigeur for P100 systems, so it might be an idea to add it to the hardware notes on the FreeBSD web site. I think this is probably it, but we have to do a bit more work here to be sure, still it appears that the "install panics kernel" problem is now history at least. Thanks to you all for all your help. Regards Kevin -- (Kevin Quinlan) Kevin.Quinlan@isltd.insignia.com Kevin.Quinlan@insignia.co.uk