Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:41:42 -0400 From: jbailey@elux3.cs.umass.edu To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Problems with installation Message-ID: <199509191541.LAA14766@el8.cs.umass.edu>
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I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my system for the last few days, and my computer keeps crashing at various points during the installation. Here is the error message I got during the most recent occurence of this problem: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xefc03c14 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf0167ca0 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 6 (newfs) interrupt mask = [ there was nothing here, j.b.] panic: page fault And then the system reboots. I have had this happen using both the newer and older 2.0-RELEASE cpio and boot144 floppies. My system has these components: AMD DX4 100 MB NEC drive (drive 0, from which i boot FreeBSD) 840 MB Western Digital (drive 1, containing /var and /usr) An energy star VESA 486 motherboard I don't suppose you could shed some light on what the error means (I have also had it happen at other points during the installation, particularly when I try to install the bindist files off drive 1, from a MSDOS partition)? I am not sure if my computer has a hardware problem, or if the installation software is messed up. Any help, comments, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Justin Bailey (413)546-0730
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