From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 25 00:07:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA18753 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:07:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA18748 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:07:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul3.u.washington.edu (root@saul3.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.1]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id AAA59046 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:07:21 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id AAA09182 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:07:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971025071050.007e0670@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> X-Sender: jcwells@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 07:10:50 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jason Wells Subject: Re: Brokeness of floppy images In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.3.32.19971024043954.007cd400@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Ah, the 48MB double fault. This seemed to only affect the 2.2.2-RELEASE >floppy; any later SNAP floppies, and thus 2.2.5, will work properly. For >the history here, the boot floppy will emit `panic: double fault' if you >have 48mb of RAM installed in the machine. WOW. This is the first I heard of the 48MB bug. I guess its my machine after after all. Hmmm. How'd that happen? :) >They need to grab a 2.2.5 floppy or yank a SIMM until you're finished >installing. And I'd highly recommend installing 2.2.5 instead of 2.2.2; >the 2.2.2 sysinstall had some nasty corruption bugs. Wouldn't you know that I bought Complete FreeBSD a on the same day that the announcement hit my email box. Now it will cost me for a new CD. I can resist the cutting edge... I can resist... must hold..... out ..... :) THanks for the info on the bug, Jason Wells