From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 5 21:54:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA21966 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 21:54:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line6.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA21960 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 21:54:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA07476; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 21:54:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 21:54:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Simon Rak cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot install In-Reply-To: <341089D7.2F81@acad.ursinus.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Simon Rak wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.2 on an IBM PS Server 320. It came > with a Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller and 16MB of RAM. I added a 3C509 > ethernet card and amother 16MB of RAM. Whenever I try to boot from the > installation floppy, I get a "Panic: xxx" error at various stages of > installation. Usually, it is a "page fault" panic. Do you have any idea > about what is wrong? [boilerplate response engaged] You need to provide the full panic output and the output of the boot probe (hit scroll lock then up arrow at the main menu) before I can help you any further. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo