From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 8:27:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 1upmc-msx4.isdip.upmc.edu (1upmc-msx4.isdbu.upmc.edu [128.147.18.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56EB615759 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 08:27:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from longcg@msx.upmc.edu) Received: by 1upmc-msx4.isdbu.upmc.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 4 May 1999 11:27:23 -0400 Message-ID: <8948DD9B2EDCD111B49500805FA78373039B5DE5@1upmc-msx2.isdbu.upmc.edu> From: "Long, Christopher" To: "'thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: System Halted on Boot Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 11:27:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thought of that :) The initial Set was 16MB. The second set that I replaced it with was 4MB. I should have clarified in my original email Thanks --Chris -----Original Message----- From: Thierry Herbelot [mailto:Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 11:22 AM To: Long, Christopher Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: System Halted on Boot "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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message