From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 20:21:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA10262 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:21:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA10254 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:21:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA01657; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:22:30 -0800 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:22:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Blair Schmittel cc: questions@freebsd.org, c@strech.cyber-naut.com Subject: Re: installation In-Reply-To: <199603280511.WAA14056@strech.cyber-naut.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Blair Schmittel wrote: > > I have a Pentium 120 Triton Chipset and 16 megs of ram. The boot floppy > loads fine, and I am able to do the configuration on the pre-install. I > start transfering FreeBSD via FTP, and the image floppy loads fine. About > 5% into the binary's I get a panic. > > I loaded FreeBSD successfully onto > a friends machine which is the exact same system, down to the video card. > I've tried multiple boot floppies also. > > The system: > P5120 Triton 256K Cache > 16 megs EDO Ram > Diamon Stealth 64 Video card > 3Com Etherlink III card w/plug 'n play disabled > > The Problem; > This is the error I get during the installation: > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode Hm. We see this when memory runs out, when you try to install into a 4mb system. Have you tried turning on debug and hopping over to the debug console on ALT-F2? I wonder if something else is failing, and the panic is the end of the chain reaction. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major