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Date:      Fri, 28 May 1999 00:40:36 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Leonard Chung <leonard@ssl.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Does FreeBSD no longer work with 386's?
Message-ID:  <374E4874.718BD48B@3-cities.com>
References:  <4.1.19990528002950.00b3ac90@yikes.com>

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Leonard Chung wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently running 2.2.7 on an old 386 with 8 megs of non-parity RAM and
> two NE2000 ethernet cards.  The system is primarily used just to run natd
> for computers on the internal network to talk to ones on the external net.
> I wanted to upgrade the system to 3.2, but unfortunately I can't even boot
> off the boot disk.  Right after the loader has shown the symbol info and
> just before it would normally ask for the MFS disk, it craps out with a
> constant beep and the following dump (leading zeros have been stripped):

What they have been saying is that it needs 12MB to install.

Kent

> 
> [sic]... +0x24acd]
> int=d
> err=13
> efl=30246
> eip=37e7
> eax=3c03
> ebx=7
> ecx=fffe
> edx=0
> esi=3739
> edi=0
> ebp=3f8
> esp=366
> cs=c000
> ds=40
> es=3773
> fs=0
> gs=0
> ss=9e65
> cs: eip=e2 fe 8a c4 e6 61 c3 a0-4a 00 fe c8 8a 26 84 00
> ss: esp=f9 19 73 37 00 00 15 d2-00 00 00 00 07 00 17
> 
> As I've said, the computer has been extremely bulletproof with 2.2.7 (over
> 222 days uptime! :-), but won't boot off the install disks at all with 3.2.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Leonard
> 
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