From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 16:45:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7833A37BA6E for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04294; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:45:24 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000315174215.045eb7c0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:45:21 -0700 To: Sheldon Hearn From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE will not install on Everex laptop Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <97321.953029915@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm testing the hardware now. I'm wondering, though, if it has something to do with the type of CPU. This is a 100 MHz 486, which as far as I know was never made in a laptop version by Intel. So perhaps it's a Cyrix part. If it is, would it require anything special? Also, it could be that FreeBSD is failing to detect a memory hole. How can one set the amount of RAM used by the kernel at boot time? --Brett At 03:31 AM 3/14/2000 , Sheldon Hearn wrote: >On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 00:07:11 MST, Brett Glass wrote: > > > Sometimes, I'll get past the configuration into the installation > > screens, but before I can get the OS installed the machine > > inevitably dies; the installer catches a signal 11 and terminates. > >Are you convinced that this is good hardware? If this happened to me, >I'd suspect the hardware immediately. > >Ciao, >Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message