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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:21:58 -0800
From:      Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu>
To:        Nicholas Vinen <hb@fl.net.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem booting 3.0 kernel
Message-ID:  <36AE31F6.C90418D8@seattleu.edu>
References:  <199901261043.VAA23787@shell1.syd.fl.net.au>

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Nicholas Vinen wrote:
> 
> UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU> Hi, I got a copy of the FreeBSD 3.0 CDROM to try it out. A couple of
> weeks ago, I managed to boot it into install but was confused by the disk
> slice editor so didn't install it.

Ok.

> Since then I have changed my setup
> slightly and now I get a kernel page fault after the "Searching for ISA
> devices...". 

Ok

> I changed my network card to a 3c509 but I don't think this
> is the problem.

Try changing it back

> I also changed my IDE setup with my ATAPI CDROM devices on
> the motherboard IDE controller and my hard disk on an external IDE
> controller.

> FreeBSD 3.0 detects this PCI IDE controller fine but it still
> seems to crash. I was wondering if this is a known problem or if there's a
> newer kernel I can download and put onto a floppy so that I can continue
> the installation?

Not as a release, try pulling everything but the necessary hardware
out, then putting them back in piece by piece until you find a
solution.

-- 
Eric Hodel
hodeleri@seattleu.edu

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