From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 5 09:01:16 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA26966 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 09:01:16 -0800 Received: from forged.passport.ca (forged.passport.ca [199.246.38.201]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA26935; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 09:00:33 -0800 Received: by forged.passport.ca (Smail3.1.29.1 #5) id m0rbAJt-0002HwC; Sun, 5 Feb 95 12:00 EST Message-Id: Date: Sun, 5 Feb 95 12:00 EST From: marrano@passport.ca (Mario Marrano) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, bugs@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org, hardware@FreeBSD.org, comp.os.386bsd.apps@passport.ca, comp.os.386bsd.questions@passport.ca, comp.os.386bsd.bugs@passport.ca Subject: FreeBSD2.0 Installation "panic" problems Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Hope someone can direct me to the right group, in any >case i've >> got a problem installing v.2 onto my 486sx25 with 2 >ide drives, >> 1 scsi drive and scsi cd-rom. There is also 12mb ram >and a vlb >> ide controller. I get an error message when booting >from >> boot.flp >> to the tune:"fd0c:hard error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 >(st0 >> 40 st1 4 st2 10 cyl0 >hd0 sec17) >> panic:cannot mount root > >Are your floppies correctly entered in your BIOS setup >? It fails on sector 16, so i suspect you used a >1.44Mb floppy, but your BIOS thinks the floppy drive >is only a 1.2Mb floppy. 1.2Mb drives have 15 sectors, >1.44Mb drives 18 sectors. > > > ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) > >Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof >Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: >+49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe i've confirmed the proper setup of my bios.when i do a ctrl-alt-del to reboot after getting the above message,i get the following screenful: Fatal trap 12: pagefault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xefc00000 fault code = supervisor read,page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf01860b0 code segment = base 0x0,limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0,pres1, def32 1, gran1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled,resume,IOPL=0 current process = 0(swapper) interrupt mask = net tty bio panic: page fault my harddrive setup consists of 2 ide drives(c:,d:) and 1 scsi drive(e: which is 1gb in size). i would like to partition d: into 2 and install bsd in one partition and os/2 warp in the other. it is my first taste of unix but i'm experienced with os/2, dos. please help any way you can. thanks.