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Date:      Sat, 25 Nov 1995 11:30:05 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        smm@uunet.uu.net (Steve Mansfield)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot disk not letting me boot.
Message-ID:  <199511251930.LAA17053@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <QQzrjk11680.199511251211@triryche.uu.net> from "Steve Mansfield" at Nov 25, 95 07:11:59 am

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 how much ram do you have?

you need 5MB for the boot floppy/install
as it holds an entire system in ram
but you only need 4M once you've got it installed..

you DID do a BINARY mode ftp transfer right?

> 
> I'm trying to boot my system with a freebsd boot disk (boot.flp dd'ed to a
> floppy), and I actually get to the point where I get the boot prompt, and
> regardless of whether I just tell it to boot, or go into -c mode, and
> diable all of the drivers I don't have devices for, I get a "page fault
> while in kernel" error.  Can someone explain what I need to do to get this
> to boot completely?  I get the error after it does the device probe.
> 
> Steve Mansfield  |The captain frowned. "It's a funny thing," he said, "but
> smm@uunet.uu.net |why is it that the heathens and the barbarians seem to have
>                  |the best places to go when they die?"
>                  |Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
> 




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