Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 23:07:41 -0800 From: Kevin.Quinlan@isltd.insignia.com (Kevin Quinlan) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Kernel panic installing FreeBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <299.9602202308@cornflakes.isltd.insignia.com>
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Hi, I have asked this a couple of times of info@freebsdorg, but I guess that is the wrong address, according to your Web page, although it seemed correct from reading the CDROM instructions. I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on a Pentium 100 (32Mb) with a Buslogic 946C SCSI controller and a 1.2Gb Seagate Hawk boot disk. I have had some difficulty partitioning the disk, but I have used the Fdisk utility supplied on the CDROM and it seems to be correct now. I do the whole install using the Novice method, and it all goes well until about 50% through writing the / partition when the kernel (booted from the CDROM floppy image) crashes with a page fault. I have trawled the web pages and the newsgroup archives and only found one similar instance - without an answer. This suggests that I may be doing something so obviously wrong that no-one thinks it is worth answering, or it may be a rare occurance. Regardless, I have tried all the variations that I can at present (I only have the CDROM option as my target machine is not installed on the net at present) including making a small DOS partition on the disk and limiting the freebsd partition to under 1Gb, but to no avail, the install continues to fail. Do you have any ideas what I am doing wrong, or what I may have configured incorrectly to cause these problems? Regards Kevin Quinlan
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