From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 8:24:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E85114DC4 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 08:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id QAA27976; Tue, 4 May 1999 16:21:14 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id RAA13277; Tue, 4 May 1999 17:19:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA22690; Tue, 4 May 1999 17:14:30 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id RAA22423; Tue, 4 May 1999 17:16:38 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <372F10A6.4F14E9B1@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 17:22:14 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: Alcatel CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Long, Christopher" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: System Halted on Boot References: <8948DD9B2EDCD111B49500805FA78373039B5DE3@1upmc-msx2.isdbu.upmc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Long, Christopher" wrote: > > Good Morning, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 3.1-Stable to my machine. I created the > Kernel and Root Floppies, and booted fine with them. Ran through the > install, and was transfering files, when it came up with an error 11. So, I > rebooted, and tried to boot off of the HD. Did not boot, because the kernel > was not created yet. > So I booted with the kernel floppy, and instead of booting, I got this > message: > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.5 639/3072kb Hello, If your machine only has 4 Megs of RAM, you will not be able to install FreeBSD on it (it must have more than 8 Megs). This may be the cause of the error messages you saw TfH > (jkh@time.cdrom.com, Mon Feb 15 13:26:18 GMT 1999) > /kernel text=0x18be9a | > int=00000006 err=00000000 efl=00030002 eip=0000f677 > eax=00000000 ebx=0000006c ecx=00000204 edx=00001516 > esi=00000004 edi=0000f13e ebp=000003ef esp=000003f0 > cs=f63b ds=0040 es=33f9 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9e03 > cs:eip=f0 35 00 00 00 12 00 05-00 20 0b 00 00 60 0f 2c > ss:esp=f9 33 3c f1 00 00 00 00-02 04 00 00 16 15 6c 00 > System halted > > I thought that It may be a problem with the ram, so I swapped it with a > different set, and got the same error > > Any help would be greatly appreciated > --Chris > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message