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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 23:16:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
cc: champlin@stolaf.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: syncing disks
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On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Jason Wells wrote:

> >Your disk controller is quitting prematurely.  What are the details on
> >your machine?
> 
> I might be wrong. This is the behaviour that occurs as system is booting.
> The sequence of events is (more or less)
> 
> changing root device to /dev/fd0
> panic: double fault
> syncing disks

Ooohhh, this. :-(  Try a newer boot floppy; it's a known bug on 2.2.2 and
48mb machines.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major