From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 25 11:30:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA14540 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 11:30:27 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA14534 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 11:30:25 -0800 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA17053; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 11:30:06 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199511251930.LAA17053@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Boot disk not letting me boot. To: smm@uunet.uu.net (Steve Mansfield) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 11:30:05 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Steve Mansfield" at Nov 25, 95 07:11:59 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 925 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk how much ram do you have? you need 5MB for the boot floppy/install as it holds an entire system in ram but you only need 4M once you've got it installed.. you DID do a BINARY mode ftp transfer right? > > I'm trying to boot my system with a freebsd boot disk (boot.flp dd'ed to a > floppy), and I actually get to the point where I get the boot prompt, and > regardless of whether I just tell it to boot, or go into -c mode, and > diable all of the drivers I don't have devices for, I get a "page fault > while in kernel" error. Can someone explain what I need to do to get this > to boot completely? I get the error after it does the device probe. > > Steve Mansfield |The captain frowned. "It's a funny thing," he said, "but > smm@uunet.uu.net |why is it that the heathens and the barbarians seem to have > |the best places to go when they die?" > |Small Gods - Terry Pratchett >