Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 04:01:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970920035820.24174A-100000@keystone.westminster.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970920172418.60708@lemis.com>
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On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > > a bunch of addresses, something > > about supervicor read failed...? > > Then it says system will reboot in 15 secs. > > I tried taking out everything I don't have, leaving everything in, and a > > couple random configs. Same result.. > > This looks like a bug to me. In fact, there's no question: anything > that causes the kernel to panic is a bug. > > Are you saying that the system panics during boot? Can you say > exactly where? How much memory does your machine have? I have a Compaq Presario, originally a Pentium 120, now a Cyrix 6x86 166. I have 24 megs of RAM installed, put there's a aparently a hangup in the Compaq architecture, or the FreeBSD interface to it, which means that only 16 megs is detected with the GENERIC kernel; this was true in 2.1.6, and in 2.2.1; I always have to compile a custom kernel to use more than 16. It panics right after I quit the kernel config and save; I don't get any messages about probes after that; it clears the screen and goes right to the panic. I could see if I can get a screen shot of it; I stil have the SNAP boot.flp here somewhere... :-} MAtt (.sig sym-linked to /dev/null)
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