Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:27:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: David Kirchner <dpk@eskimo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: Asus PVI-486SP3 motherboard problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960403102354.1509A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960403021007.998A-100000@eskimo.com>
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On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, David Kirchner wrote: > :> I'm having problems getting FreeBSD installed on my computer. > :> While installing the files it either gpf's or kernel panics and then > :> sometimes it locks the keyboard. > > Sorry about that before, I forgot that. Here it is (formatting > will probably be wrong) : > > last ptr: 0x8:0xf01dc20e > 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 = idle > int mask = bio Did it spit a line like panic: fatal trap 12 while in kernel mode or something? > > I tried installing it again following Michael Smith's > recommendation to disable the Write Back cache, and when I did I got the > exact same panic (same last ptr and everything) but instead of panicing > while it was idle it said 1 (sysinstall) Did you turn off block mode as well for the disks? This seems to be the major problem. > :Nice machine...that sb32 pnp will probably give you problems if you can't > :disable pnp... > > Yeah, if it's even possible. I'll check the manuals again but this > may requre a call to Creative. There have been people asking about the sb16 pnp's, I think someone whipped up some code to get them working, but it's most likely in -current if it is even committed. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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