From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 20 01:16:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA01739 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 01:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA01729 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 01:16:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id RAA25099; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 17:45:56 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970920174556.12779@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 17:45:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: Doug White , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install References: <19970920172418.60708@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew D. Fuller on Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 04:01:28AM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 04:01:28AM -0400, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > 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... Hmmm. What happens if you don't go into the kernel config? Greg